加快中西部地区经济发展,特别是实施西部大开发,是党的第三代领导集体面向新世纪作出的一个全局性的战略决策。这一战略决策的依据,就是邓小平在20世纪80年代提出的“两个大局”的战略构想,他指出:“沿海地区要加快对外开放,使这个拥有两亿人口的广大地带较快地发展起来,从而带动内地更好地发展,这是一个事关大局的问题,内地要顾全这个大局。反过来,发展到一定的时候,又要求沿 Speeding up the economic development in the central and western regions, especially the large-scale development of the western region, is a comprehensive strategic decision made by the third-generation leading group of the party in the new century. The basis of this strategic decision is the strategic concept proposed by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. He pointed out: ”Coastal areas should speed up the pace of opening to the outside world so as to make the area with a population of 200 million faster This will be a matter that concerns the overall situation. The Mainland should take this situation into consideration. In turn, when it is time to develop itself, it will require that the Mainland