如何正确认识地区经济发展差距问题，如何处理好东部地区和中西部地区的经济关系，是一个关系国家经济发展全局和实现现代化目标的重大问题。江总书记在十五大报告中指出，要“促进地区经济的合理布局和协调发展”，要“从多方面努力，逐步缩小地区发展差距”，本文就这一问题 How to correctly understand the issue of regional economic development disparity and how to handle the economic relations between the eastern region and the central and western regions is a major issue that concerns the overall national economic development and the goal of realizing modernization. In his report to the 15th National Congress, General Secretary Jiang Zemin pointed out: To “promote the rational distribution and coordinated development of the regional economy,” it is necessary to “make efforts in many aspects and gradually narrow the gap in regional development.” This article addresses this issue