120世纪0年代后期.pptVIP

Text A;Chinas Great Western Development Campaign;1 In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping made a dramatic break with Chinas decades-long practice of egalitarianism by declaring that some people and some regions in China should be allowed to get rich before others so that these people and regions would lead the way to common prosperity for all. 2 That decision marked the start of a 20-year boom that has raised the living standards of hundreds of millions of people and transformed China into the global economic and trading power it is today.;3 True to Mr. Dengs word, however, the greater part of the wealth has landed in the lap of some people and some regions. Chinas coastal provinces, with their better-educated work- force, richer land, many ports and more advanced infrastructure, raced ahead of the vast, poor and thinly populated inland western region. Now, Chinese leaders say, the time has come to even things out.;4 Welcome to the Great Western Development Campaign. Launched last year, the campaign is an ambitious top-down effort to steer state investment, outside expertise, foreign loans and private capital into the parts of China most in need but the least likely to attract aid on their own. The central government says it steered $9 billion worth of state investment into the region last year and plans to increase that annual figure this year and next. ;5 Also known as the Go West campaign, the scheme targets an area that includes Yunnan, Gansu, Sichuan, Guangxi , Guizhou, Qinghai, Shaanxi, Ningxia , Xinjiang and Tibet, as well as the city of Chongqing. Average incomes in the western region are typically one-third of those in the east, and only a tiny fraction of foreign investment has gone westward. Though the region boasts rich reserves of mineral and energy resources, its development is held back by vast distances and the lack of adequate infrastructure.;6 In support of the western development drive, the Asian Development Bank has shifted virtually all of its roadway