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①What is the concept of Western China? Western China usually refers to the west of the line connecting the Yellow River and the Qinling Mountains, including 11 provinces, cities and autonomous regions in the northwest and southwest of China. This vast land area of 5.16 million square kilometers, accounting for 40% of the total area of the country; population of 250 million, accounting for 22% of the country's total population.　② Western China is the source of the Huaxia civilization. The footsteps of the ancestors of Huaxia followed the water's edge. The upper reaches of the Yangtze River have unearthed fossilized teeth of the Yuanmou people, about 1.7 million years ago; the middle reaches of the Yellow River have unearthed skulls of the Lantian people; about 700,000 years ago. Both of these ancient humans are older than the Peking ape-man (about 500,000 years old).　③ The western region of China not only has a vast area and a long history, but also has rich and colorful cultural resources.　④ Western China is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization. After Qin Huang and Han Wu, the eastern and western cultures met and fused here, thus giving rise to the sound of camel bells on the Silk Road and the twilight drums and morning bells in the deep temples of Fo Long. Dunhuang Mogao Grottoes is a miracle in the world's cultural history, which, on the basis of inheriting the artistic traditions of the Han and Jin dynasties, has formed its own grandeur, displaying artistic forms and cultural connotations. The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum, the Tombs of the Western Xia Kings, the Ancient Kingdom of Loulan, the Potala Palace, the Sanxingdui, the Dazu Rock Carvings and other historical and cultural heritages have likewise attracted the world's attention and become important symbols of Chinese culture.　⑤ Western China is an important birthplace of the Chinese Revolution. Zunyi, Yan'an, Hongyan Village and other holy places of the revolution have nurtured a profound tradition of revolutionary culture. Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Literary and Artistic Symposium" has become a banner for the development of revolutionary literature and art. The Lu Xun Academy of Arts in Yan'an has produced a large number of famous writers, artists and literary theorists in just a few years....... These valuable assets have laid a solid foundation for the western culture to follow the forward direction of advanced culture.　⑤ The western region of China is also the gathering place of China's ethnic minorities and their cultures. More than 50 ethnic minorities live here, including almost all of China's ethnic minorities. In some remote minority areas, economic backwardness and closed transportation bring poverty to people's lives, but also make these places retain some art varieties of long ago, which become precious "living fossils", such as Naxi ancient music, opera, paper-cutting, embroidery, rock paintings, and other folk arts and religious arts. They are distinctive and colorful, like a huge treasure trove of national folk culture and art.　(7) The historical and cultural resources and ethnic cultural resources possessed by the western region of China are an important part of the development of the western region. Full attention should be paid to the advantages of these unique resources, and their rescue, protection, conservation and rational utilization should be strengthened, so as to establish a good ecological environment for ethnic and folk cultures, and contribute to the promotion of the development of the western part of the country. The area includes 12 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the central government, including Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, the Tibet Autonomous Region, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with a surface area of 6,850,000 square kilometers, or 71.4% of the country's territory, and an estimated population of 367 million at the end of 2002, or 28.8% of the country's territory. 2003 GDP was 226.6 billion yuan, or 28.8% of the country's territory. In 2003, the gross domestic product (GDP) was 2,266 billion yuan, accounting for 16.8% of the country. The western region is rich in resources, has great market potential and is strategically located. However, due to natural, historical and social reasons, the western region's economic development is relatively backward, the per capita GDP is only equivalent to two-thirds of the national average, less than 40% of the average level of the eastern region, there is an urgent need to speed up the pace of reform and opening up and modernization.

From the western region of the "ten major projects", to the Qinghai-Tibet Railway construction; from the west to the east gas pipeline, to the west to the east of the steady implementation of the project; from the western region of the large-scale construction of airports, railroads, highways and the construction of a comprehensive start; from the large-scale construction of urban infrastructure, to the large-scale pilot farmland forests and grasslands. The western development - this great cross-century project - is being pushed forward solidly in the vast western region.

Implementing the strategy of developing the west is a strategic move to realize **** the same prosperity, strengthen national unity, and maintain social stability and border security

Fifty years since the founding of the country, especially since the reform and opening up 20 years ago, the economic and social development of the regions have made great progress, the eastern region due to a better economic foundation, a favorable geographic location, coupled with the support of the state policy, modernization The eastern region, with its better economic foundation, favorable geographical location, and supportive national policies, has taken the lead in modernization and has made rapid progress in economic and social development, and people are generally living a well-off life. Due to the influence of many factors such as history, nature and location, the overall level of development of the western region, compared with the eastern part of the country, there exists a large gap, and in the past decade or so, this gap has also been widening trend. While continuing to accelerate the economic development of the eastern seaboard, the implementation of the western development strategy without losing time, for gradually narrowing the development gap between regions, accelerating the realization of the national regions *** with the prosperity and people *** with the rich, to maintain national social stability, will play an important role. The vast western provinces and regions are located on the motherland's borders and are home to a concentration of ethnic minorities. For many years, hostile forces at home and abroad have been "polarizing" and "westernizing" our country, using the ethnic and religious issues in the west to engage in subversive and separatist activities. To safeguard and maintain the stability of the ethnic regions and to thwart the plots of hostile forces at home and abroad to split our country, it is crucial to accelerate the economic development and social progress of these regions, to further consolidate and develop socialist ethnic relations based on equality, unity and mutual assistance, to strengthen the cohesion and centripetal force of the Chinese nation as a whole, and to consolidate fundamentally the social stability and tranquility of the borders.

The western region accounts for two-thirds of China's area, and compared with the developed eastern coastal areas, most of the western region is more sparsely populated, the natural conditions are more severe, and the economy is more backward. The existence of these conditions is the result of a variety of complex social and historical reasons. If a large socialist country, a developing country, the problem of the east and west for a long time can not be solved, and even the problem of the widening gap between the development of certain regions, is abnormal, will inevitably appear in the west dragged the eastern leg, and ultimately lead to a serious lag in development, affecting the construction of the cause of the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics of the overall situation.

The implementation of the western development strategy, accelerate the development of the central and western regions, for the expansion of domestic demand, promote sustained growth of the national economy, for the promotion of coordinated economic development of the regions, and ultimately realize *** with the rich, for strengthening national unity, maintaining social stability and consolidation of the border, has a very important significance. The implementation of the western development strategy, the conditions are now in place, the time is ripe. We must grasp the "two big picture" dialectical relationship, seize the opportunity. Now the favorable conditions are, after more than 20 years of reform, construction, the eastern region has been a relatively rapid development, has accumulated a certain amount of capital, talent, technology and management experience. On the one hand, the eastern region has the desire and ability to support the development of the western region while continuing to develop and grow itself: on the other hand, the rich resources and huge market potential of the western region have also created important conditions for the eastern region to continue its development. More importantly, in the 50 years since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, our country's comprehensive national strength has increased significantly, and the people's living standard is close to moderately affluent, so we have enough economic strength to increase support for the central and western regions; our Party's experience in using economic means to adapt to the laws of the market to lead the economic construction has become increasingly rich, and coupled with the socialist system's advantage of focusing on doing big things, the development of the western region is completely It can be done.