温家宝总理在中部调研时,曾十分感慨于中部地区较低的开放度。而在全球化市场化大背景下,较低的开放度,的确是中西部地区经济发展滞后的重要原因。我国的对外开放战略实行的是梯度推进战略,即由点(特区、开发区)到面(沿海开放城市、沿海开放地区)再向中西部地区推进。东部沿海开放地区,最先实行对外开放,并且政策优惠程度最高; During his investigation in Central China, Premier Wen Jiabao deeply felt the low degree of openness in the central region. In the context of globalization, the relatively low degree of openness is indeed an important reason for the sluggish economic development in the central and western regions. Our country’s strategy of opening up to the outside world implements a gradient-based promotion strategy, that is, from point (SEZ, development zone) to surface (open coastal cities and open coastal areas) to the central and western regions. The eastern coastal open areas, the first implementation of opening up, and the highest degree of preferential policies;