改造东北老工业基地的号角在党的十六大召开之际就已经吹响:“支持东北地区等老工业基地加快调整和改造,支持以资源开采为主的城市发展接续产业”。今年8月温家宝总理明确指出,东北的振兴“在实现国家现代化的整个过程中始终起着十分重要的作用”,是中国“新世纪发展阶段中重大而紧迫的任务”。 The trumpets of rebuilding the northeast old industrial base have already sounded at the convening of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: “We will speed up the readjustment and transformation of the old industrial bases in the northeastern region and support the urban development of the follow-up industries based on resource exploitation.” In August this year, Premier Wen Jiabao made it clear that the rejuvenation of the northeast has always played a very important role in the entire process of national modernization and is a major and urgent task for China in the development stage of the new century.