Promoting East-West Interaction
发布: 2008-1-15 09:45 | 作者: CE reporter CHEN Wei | 来源: China Economist
Exclusive interview with Dr.Cao Yushu,
Deputy Director of the Office of the Leading Group for Western Region Development at the State Council.
Editorial note:Economic growth and environmental “friendliness” are the dual missions of China’s grand western development. In the past eight years, China has seen the gap between eastern and western regions still widening while also taking on the arduous task of protecting nature, ecology and environment in the western region. How has western development fared in the past eight years? What difficulties and challenges are being encountered? The development of the western region poses the single greatest difficulty facing China’s regional economic development, but how can we advance along a “sound and fast” development path? The establishment of economic zones in Chengdu and Chongqing, Guanzhong and North Bay has opened up new possibilities and expectations for western China’s economic development.
Western “embarrassment”:The “Grand Development”of the western region continues,along side the widening gap between China’s east and west.CE: The “Grand Western Development Strategy” has been in place for eight years, but the gap between western and eastern regions has continued to widen. Paradoxically,it seems that the more efforts exerted on western development, the greater the gap between western and eastern regions has become.
