为了缩小东西部差距，协调区域经济的发展，国家已经把加快西部发展作为一项长期战略任务，确定了一系列加速开发西部地区的政策和措施。笔者认为，东西部差距在很大程度上是对外开放的差距，西部地区面临对外开放的有利环境和机遇，加大西部地区利用外资力度将是缩小东西部差? In order to narrow the gap between the east and the west and coordinate the development of regional economy, the state has taken the acceleration of the development of the western region as a long-term strategic task and has determined a series of policies and measures to speed up the development of the western region. The author believes that the gap between the east and the west is to a large extent the gap opening up to the outside world. The western region is facing a favorable environment and opportunities for opening to the outside world. To increase the utilization of foreign capital in the western region will be to narrow the gap between eastern and western regions.