党的十六大明确将全面建设小康社会作为我们党在本世纪头二十年的奋斗目标。实现这个目标的难点之一是如何使西部地区的经济社会发展跟上全国发展的步伐 ,为全国实现全面建设小康社会的目标作出积极的贡献 ,让西部人民更加充分地享受到社会主义现代化建设的成就。对这个问题 , At the 16th CPC National Congress, we will explicitly regard the building of a moderately prosperous society in all aspects as our party’s goal for the first two decades of this century. One of the difficulties in achieving this goal is how to keep the economic and social development in the western region pace with the development of the whole country and make positive contributions to the realization of the goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way so that the people in the west can enjoy the socialist modernization more fully achievement. On this issue,