记者:城市是经济发展的产物,是一定规模的人口和经济要素的集聚,城市化的程度决定一个地区区域经济的发展。中心城市是先进生产力的聚集地和辐射源,国内外各地区经济发展的实践表明,区域中心城市对一个国家、一个地区的经济发展起着重要的带动、聚集和扩散、辐射作用。江总书记指出:西部地区幅员辽阔,开发不可能全面铺摊子。要选择现有经济基 Reporter: The city is a product of economic development and a gathering of population and economic elements of a certain size. The degree of urbanization determines the development of regional economy in a region. The central city is the gathering place and radiation source of advanced productive forces. The practice of economic development in various regions both at home and abroad shows that the regional central cities play an important role in bringing economic growth to one country and one region, gathering and spreading and radiating. General Secretary Jiang pointed out: In the vast western region, development can not be fully paved. To choose the existing economic base