Achievements made in the development of the western region

Achievements made in the development of the western region;

(A) the economic strength has been greatly enhanced

The economy of the western region has maintained steady and rapid development, and its economic benefits have been significantly improved, and the trend of widening economic development gap with the eastern region has been initially curbed. From 2000 to 2008, the GDP of the western region increased from1665.55 billion yuan to 5,825.7 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 1 1.7%, and its proportion in the total regional output increased from 17. 1% to/. The per capita GDP increased from 4624 yuan to 1.6 million yuan, and from 59.5% to 63.7%, which was equivalent to the regional average. The industrial added value increased from 594.6 billion yuan to about 2.4 trillion yuan, an increase of nearly four times. The revenue of local finance at the corresponding level increased from 1 127 billion yuan to 5 159 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 19.6%, and its proportion in the whole country increased from 17.6% to 18.0%. The expenditure of local finance at this level has increased from 260654380+0 billion yuan to 6543803772 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 22.8%, and its proportion in the whole country has increased from 24.9% to 28.654380+0%. The fixed assets investment of the whole society increased from 611100 million yuan to 3,583.9 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 22.9%, and the proportion of the total in all regions increased from 19.2% to 2 1.3%. The total retail sales of social consumer goods increased from 595.4 billion yuan to192.39 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 654.38+04.9%, and the proportion of total retail sales in all regions increased from 654.38+06.7% to 654.38+07.2%. The total volume of import and export trade increased from US$ 654.38+07.2 billion to US$ 654.38+00.68 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 25.6%, and its proportion in the whole country increased from 3.6% to 4.2%.

(2) Breakthrough progress has been made in infrastructure construction.

Speeding up infrastructure construction is an important foundation for the development of the western region. Since 10, the state has continuously increased its support for infrastructure construction in the western region, such as transportation, water conservancy, energy, communication and municipal administration. From 2000 to 2008, a total of 102 key projects were newly started, with a total investment of10.7 trillion yuan, including Qinghai-Tibet Railway, West-East Gas Transmission, West-East Power Transmission, the western section of national trunk line and large-scale projects.

On the highway. The western section of the "five verticals and seven horizontals" national trunk line runs through10.6 thousand kilometers, and eight inter-provincial trunk highways developed in the west will be fully completed in 20 10. Export highways in poverty-stricken counties, oil roads in Tongxian county and inter-county highways will be completed and opened to traffic one after another, and the construction of Tongxiang highway will be started in an all-round way. The penetration rate of townships (towns) and established villages reached 98.3% respectively. From 2000 to 2008, 888,000 kilometers of highways were added in the western region, including expressway 13927 kilometers. At the end of 2008, the total mileage of highways reached 142 1000 km, accounting for 38. 1% of the national total mileage, of which the expressway 16456 km, accounting for 23.2% of the national total mileage.

On this side of the railway. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway, with a total length of 1 100 kilometers, was completed and opened to traffic, which filled the gap of being the only major railway province in China and became a brilliant crossing in the history of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for thousands of years. By the end of 2008, trains entering Tibet had transported 3.528 million passengers and more than 2.8 million tons of goods, which contributed to Tibet's economic and social development. Ningxi Railway (from xi to Hefei), Huai Yu Railway, Wu Lan Railway Double Track and suining-chongqing railway were completed and opened to traffic. Cross-regional railways such as lanzhou-chongqing railway, Guiyang-Guangzhou Railway, nanning-guangzhou railway and Chenglan Railway, as well as passenger dedicated lines from Zhengzhou to Xi 'an, Chengdu to Mianyang to Leshan, and Xi to Baoji have started construction. From 2000 to 2008, more than 8,000 kilometers of railways were added in the western region. By the end of 2008, the total mileage of railways in the western region reached 29,400 kilometers, and the double-track rate and electrification rate reached 23.2% and 38.8% respectively, accounting for 37.7% of the total mileage in China. The scale of railway network in the western region has been continuously expanded, and the situation of insufficient transportation capacity has been alleviated, which has played a key role in emergency transportation such as snowstorm in the south, Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan and ensuring coal supply.

At the airport. Chongqing, Chengdu, Xi, Kunming, Guiyang, Lhasa, Xining, Yinchuan, Urumqi, Hohhot, Nanning, Guilin and other 12 trunk airports and 30 feeder airports such as Dunhuang and Baotou have been extensively rebuilt and expanded, and 2/kloc-0 feeder airports such as Linzhi and Jiuzhaigou have been newly built. By the end of 2008, there were 79 civil transport airports in the western region, accounting for 49.4% of the total number of airports in China. The rapid development of aviation has shortened the distance between the distant west and all parts of the country.

Water conservancy Large-scale water control projects such as Baise in Guangxi, Zipingpu in Sichuan, Shapotou in Ningxia and Nierji in Inner Mongolia have been built one after another, bringing benefits into play. Dujiangyan, Wudu Water Diversion Phase II, Ningmeng Hetao Irrigation Area and other large irrigation areas have been built one after another 133. The irrigation area has been increased and restored by more than 8.9 million mu, the irrigation area has been improved by more than 34 million mu, and the water saving capacity has been increased by more than 6 billion cubic meters. Arrange 1299 reinforcement project for dangerous reservoirs. The rural drinking water safety project has solved the drinking water difficulties and drinking water safety problems of 77.94 million people.