加快川湘铁路的建设,对当前我国加快西南经济发展具有重大意义。 首先,我国对外开放和经济起飞由东部向西部扩展,对加快建设川湘铁路提出了更加紧迫的要求。近几年来,外商对中国西南地区投资的积极性提高,对四川省的投资大幅度增加,四川省近几年的经济增长率平均以10％的速度递增,铁路运量每年平均仅增长3％左右,严重地制约了四川省经济的发展。 其次,重庆市和川东地区近几年经济的发展,对加快川湘铁路建设提出了更加急迫的需求。近几年由于 Speeding up the construction of Sichuan-Hunan Railway is of great significance to speeding up the economic development of Southwest China. First of all, opening up to the outside world and economic take-off in our country have expanded from the east to the west, putting forward even more pressing demands on accelerating the construction of the Sichuan-Xiangshan Railway. In recent years, the enthusiasm of foreign investors in investing in southwestern China has increased, and the investment in Sichuan has risen sharply. In recent years, the economic growth rate in Sichuan Province has risen at an average rate of 10%. The average annual growth rate of railway traffic has only increased by about 3% annually , Seriously hampered the economic development in Sichuan Province. Second, the economic development in Chongqing and the eastern Sichuan region in recent years has put forward even more pressing needs for speeding up the construction of the Chuan-Xiang Railway. In recent years due to