近读由赵常庆教授等 6位中国学者历时两年完成的中国社会科学院 A类重点项目《中亚五国与中国西部大开发》,颇感新颖 ,令人振奋 ,因为这是自 1 999年中央做出西部大开发的决定以来 ,在国内出版的数十部有关中国西部大开发的专著中 ,少有从中国邻国与中国西部地区的关系角度探讨 The recent read-out by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a type A key project of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences completed in two years by six Chinese scholars such as Professor Zhao Changqing, the “Five Central Asian States and the Great Development of Western China” was quite new and exciting because it is the first time since Central China Since the decision to develop the western region, few of the dozens of books on the large-scale development of western China published in the Mainland have been explored from the perspective of the relations between China’s neighboring countries and the western region of China