继续教育的发展与欠发达的西部地区的社会发展是一种既相互制约又相互促进的双向互动关系。在西部大开发的时代背景下 ,西部地区的继续教育应当以积极的姿态把握好这一难得的发展机遇 ,通过继续教育对人力资源的开发和优化 ,对西部大开发做出应有的贡献 The development of continuing education and the social development in the underdeveloped western region are two-way interactive relations that restrict each other and promote each other. Under the background of the great development of the western region, the continuing education in the western region should seize this rare opportunity of development with a positive attitude and make its due contribution to the development of the western region through the development and optimization of human resources through continuing education