国家计委副秘书长郑立新近日在山西省作报告时指出，加快中西部地区的开发力度，是国家制定“十五”计划和十五年远景规划的一个重点课题。中西部地区开发是一个大战略，中国第三步战略的实现与现代化进程的完成取决于中西部地区的崛起。郑立新认为，中西部地区最大的落后不是 Zheng Lixin, deputy secretary general of the State Development Planning Commission, recently pointed out in his report in Shanxi Province that speeding up development in the central and western regions is a key issue for the state in formulating the “Tenth Five-year Plan” and the 15-year long-term plan. The development of the central and western regions is a grand strategy. The realization of the third-step strategy and the completion of the modernization process in China depend on the rise of the central and western regions. Zheng Lixin believes that the biggest backwardness in the central and western regions is not