江苏经济在改革开放的20年中得到了长足的发展。但是，南北之间的经济发展呈出明显的不平衡状态，影响了资源的充分利用和全省总体发展水平的提高。早在1984年，江苏省委省政府就提出“积极提高苏南，加快发展苏北”的方针；1994年第九次党代会又提出了“三大发展战略”，从区 Jiangsu’s economy has made great strides in the two decades of reform and opening up. However, the economic development between North and South showed a clear imbalance, which affected the full utilization of resources and the improvement of the overall development level of the province. As early as 1984, the provincial party committee and government of Jiangsu Province proposed the principle of “actively raising the level of southern Jiangsu and accelerating the development of northern Jiangsu.” In 1994, the Ninth Party Congress put forward the “three major development strategies”