中央实施西部大开发战略，为西部经济社会的大发展带来了难得的历史机遇。但启动西部大开发战略的时代背景，与改革初期我国东部沿海地区的大开发有很大不同。当时东部的发展模式，是依靠产品的大规模扩张来积累资金，而如今我国经济正由过去的短缺经济变为相对过剩、人民生活 The central implementation of the strategy for the great development of the western region has brought a rare historic opportunity for the great economic and social development in the western region. However, the background of launching the strategy for the great development of the western region is quite different from the great development in the eastern coastal areas of China in the early days of the reform. At that time, the development model in the east was to rely on the massive expansion of products to accumulate funds. Nowadays, our economy is changing from a deficit economy in the past to a relative surplus and people’s livelihood