国家计委副主任、国务院西部开发办副主任李子彬日前表示,我国东西部经济增长速度上差距加大的趋势正在缩小。他从三个层面分析了东西部经济差距。(一)西部地区经济的发展和东部地区,和全国平均水平相比都有较大的差距,这主要是由于历史的原因,自然条件、地理位置的原因,以及社会的原因。现在西部地区人均国内生产总值仅相当于东部沿海地区的40%,这个差距应该说还是比较大的。(二)东西部地区经济增长速度上差距加大的趋势正在缩小。比如说西部地区由于最近这三年来国家加大了基础设施、生态环境方面的投资力度,带动 State Council deputy director of the State Development Planning Commission, Li Zibin, deputy director of the State Council Western Development Office said recently that the gap between the growth rate of economic growth in eastern and western China is shrinking. He analyzed the economic disparity between east and west from three aspects. (1) Economic development in the western region has a large gap with the national average in the eastern region due to historical reasons, natural conditions, geographical reasons and social reasons. Now that the per capita gross domestic product in the western region is only 40% of that in the eastern coastal areas, the gap should still be relatively large. (II) The trend of widening the gap between the economic growth in the eastern and western regions is shrinking. For example, in the past three years in the western region, the state has boosted the investment in infrastructure and ecological environment in the past three years