1999年6月17日,中共中央总书记、国家主席江泽民在西北五省区国有企业改革和发展座谈会上说,加快开发西部地区,必须充分考虑各种有利和不利的因素,充分调动广大干部群众和各个方面的积极性。总的原则是:把加快西部经济社会发展同保持政治社会稳定、加强民族团结结合起来,把西部发展同实现全国第三步发展战略目标结合起来,在国家财力稳定增长的前提下,通过转移支付,逐步加大对西部地区 On June 17, 1999, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and President Jiang Zemin said at the forum for state-owned enterprise reform and development in the five northwestern provinces that to speed up the development of the western region, we must give full consideration to all kinds of favorable and unfavorable factors and fully mobilize the cadres The masses and all aspects of the enthusiasm. The general principle is: combine accelerating economic and social development in the western region with maintaining political and social stability and strengthening national unity, combine the development of the west with the strategic goal of realizing the third step of the nation's development, and, under the premise of steady growth of state finance and through transfer payments , And gradually increase the western region