伟大的民主革命先行者孙中山先生对我国西北地区的开发和建设十分重视。他在自己的著作和讲演中,多次提到西北的开发问题,在1917—1919年撰写的《建国方略·物质建设———实业计划》中,提出了很多宝贵而又具体的意见和设想。他认为我国西北幅员异常辽阔,地下资源十分丰富,居住 Sun Yat-sen, a great pioneer of the democratic revolution, attached great importance to the development and construction of the northwest region of China. In his writings and lectures, he repeatedly mentioned the issue of development in the northwest, and in the “Building the Country, Building Materials, and Industrial Planning” written in 1917-1919, he put forward many valuable and concrete opinions and ideas. . He believes that China’s northwestern region is extremely vast in size and has rich underground resources.