实施西部大开发,加快中西部地区发展,是党中央贯彻邓小平同志关于我国实现现代化建设“两个大局”战略思想,面向新世纪所做出的重大决策。这一战略的提出恰逢其时,符合我国的实际情况,符合经济发展的客观规律。这对于扩大内需,推动国民经济持续增长,对于促进各地区经济协调发展,最终实现共同富裕,对于加强民族团结,维护社会稳定和巩固边防都具有十分重要的意义。而西部的开发是一项非常艰巨的事业,要实现真正的开发有可能是两代人甚至几代人的努力。本文从西部社会、经济现状、资源等方面出发,分析开发西部的诸多有利条件,以世界其他国家的开发经验为借鉴,以朱总理阐述的西部开发战略为根本,以四川 Implementing the great development of the western region and speeding up the development of the central and western regions are the major decisions the CPC Central Committee has made in implementing the strategic thinking of realizing modernization drive and “two overall plans for the country” made by Comrade Deng Xiaoping and facing the new century. The formulation of this strategy coincides with its timing and is in keeping with the actual situation in our country and with the objective law of economic development. This is of great significance to expanding domestic demand, promoting sustained growth of the national economy, promoting coordinated development of all regions and eventually realizing common prosperity, and is of great significance to strengthening national unity, safeguarding social stability and consolidating the frontier defense. The development in the west is a very arduous undertaking. Real development may be the result of two generations or even generations of efforts. This article analyzes many favorable conditions for the development of the western region from the perspectives of the social, economic status quo and resources of the western region. Taking the development experience of other countries in the world as reference and the western development strategy elaborated by Premier Zhu as a base,