The paper analyzes both the progress ana prootems in the western China development drive over the past three years and attempts a tentative evaluation of the results of the drive. The authors hold that the western China development drive has been proceeding in an active, orderly and steady fashion, and has achieved considerable success in the construction of infrastructure, and improvement of ecological environment. However, there are still many problems. It has been slow in attracting non.governmental investment, in the improvement of investment climate, regional industrialization and in opening up to the outside world. It is, therefore, necessary, to make adjustments to the western China development strategy during the remaining years of the Tenth Five-Year Plan period (2001-2005) and during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan period (2006-2010), make greater efforts in reform and opening up, improve the investment climate, accelerate the pace of industrialization and attract more non-governmental capital from at home and abroad.
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