Location is very important. However, due to natural, historical and social reasons, the economic development in the western region is relatively backward, and the per capita GDP is only two-thirds of the national average and less than 40% of the average in the eastern region. It is urgent to speed up the pace of reform, opening up and modernization. Due to the historical existence and excessive expansion of the development gap between the east and the west, it has become a global problem that has long plagued the healthy development of China's economy and society. Supporting the development and construction of the western region and realizing the coordinated development of the eastern and western regions is an important policy for our party to lead economic work and an important strategic task for China's modernization drive. The development of the western region is a major strategic decision made by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in the face of the new century by implementing Deng Xiaoping's strategic thought of "two overall situations" in China's modernization, and a major strategic deployment for comprehensively promoting socialist modernization. On June 5438+ 10, 2000, the leading group for the development of the western region of the State Council held a conference on the development of the western region to study the basic ideas and strategic tasks of speeding up the development of the western region, and to deploy and implement the key tasks of the development of the western region. On June 5438+ 10, 2000, the Fifth Plenary Session of the 15th CPC Central Committee adopted "the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's Proposal on Formulating the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development", regarding the implementation of the western development and the promotion of regional coordinated development as a strategic task, emphasizing: "Implementing the western development strategy and accelerating the development of the central and western regions are related to economic development, national unity, social stability and regional coordination. In March 2006, the Outline of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of People's Republic of China (PRC) adopted at the Fourth Session of the Ninth National People's Congress made specific arrangements for implementing the strategy of developing the western region. The western region refers to Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Xinjiang, Sichuan, Chongqing, Yunnan, Guizhou, Tibet, Guangxi and Inner Mongolia 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government. To carry out the development of the western region, we should rely on the traffic trunk lines such as the Eurasian continental bridge, the Yangtze River waterway and the southwest sea passage, give full play to the role of a central city, and gradually form the Lanxin Line in the West Longhai, the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, the south (Ningxia), Guangxi and Ming, so as to promote the development of other regions and promote the development of the western region step by step and with emphasis. On February 8, 2006, No.65438 the State Council executive meeting deliberated and adopted in principle the 11th Five-Year Plan for Western Development. The goal is to strive to achieve sound and rapid economic development in the western region, the people's living standards have been continuously and steadily improved, new breakthroughs have been made in infrastructure and ecological environment construction, the development of key areas and industries has reached a new level, the equalization of basic public services such as education and health has achieved new results, and the construction of a harmonious socialist society has been solidly promoted. The overall strategic goal of the western development is to fundamentally change the relative backwardness of the western region by the middle of 2 1 century and build a new western region with economic prosperity, social progress, stable life, national unity, beautiful mountains and rivers and rich people.