How much does it cost to invest in the western development country?

National policies and measures are tilted towards the western region, and infrastructure construction has taken substantial steps. In the four years since the implementation of the Western Development Strategy, the country has increased its investment in construction funds in the western region. Central fiscal construction funds have been used for the development of the western region of about 360 billion yuan, of which more than 220 billion yuan are long-term construction government bond funds. The loan balance of financial institutions in the western region increased by more than 950 billion yuan. The country has started 50 new key projects in the western region, with a total investment scale of more than 730 billion yuan. Among them, more than 200 billion yuan has been invested in key infrastructure construction projects. The new line of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway has laid 317 kilometers of track; the eastern section of the West-to-East Gas Transmission Project has been fully completed and has supplied commercial gas to four provinces and one city in East China; the newly launched West-to-East Electric Power Transmission Project has a total installed capacity of more than 28 million kilowatts, and 9,800 power transmission and transformation lines have been constructed more than 1,000 kilometers; 43 large-scale reservoirs were built or renovated; the comprehensive management of the Tarim River and the Heihe River has achieved initial results; Populus euphratica forests in the lower reaches of the two rivers have begun to revive; a total of 75,000 kilometers of new roads have been opened to traffic, including 4,600 kilometers of highways; new railway lines and double tracks have been built and more than 4,570 kilometers of electrified lines, and 30 new or renovated airports, of which 15 have been completed and 15 are under construction. (2) The project of returning farmland to forest has been fully launched, and ecological environment protection and construction have been significantly strengthened. After more than two years of pilot work, starting in 2002, the conversion of farmland to forest project was fully launched in 25 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, focusing on the central and western regions. By the end of 2003, a total of 228 million acres of farmland had been converted to forests, including 108 million acres of converted farmland to forests and 120 million acres of barren hills and wasteland afforestation. The afforestation survival rate basically met the requirements. Over the past four years, the conversion of farmland to forest project has directly increased the income of farmers in the central and western regions from grain, seedlings and cash subsidies by 49.2 billion yuan, promoting ecological improvement and increasing farmers' income. The pilot project of returning grazing land to grassland has begun, and arrangements have been made to manage 100 million acres of severely degraded grassland. The natural forest resource protection project is in full swing, and the Beijing-Tianjin sandstorm source control project has entered the implementation stage. Pollution control efforts have been intensified in the upper reaches of rivers and central cities in the west. (3) Rural infrastructure construction has been significantly strengthened, and farmers' production and living conditions have gradually improved. The construction of asphalt roads to counties has basically completed a total mileage of 26,000 kilometers; more than 17,000 kilometers of exit roads in more than 300 poor counties have been renovated and built; the total mileage of inter-county highway projects is 46,000 kilometers, with a total of 30,000 kilometers started and road surface projects completed 4400 kilometers. The power transmission project has solved the problem of electrification in 969 villages without electricity. The implementation of the project of bringing radio and television to villages has brought the proportion of radio and television access to administrative villages in western China to more than 97%. The rural drinking water project for humans and animals has basically solved the drinking water problem for 26 million people in the western region. The ecological resettlement project, which was piloted in Yunnan, Guizhou, Inner Mongolia, and Ningxia in 2001, has enabled 700,000 people living in poverty in areas with harsh ecological environments and lacking basic human survival conditions to be relocated. (4) The development of science and technology, education and social undertakings has been accelerated, and the development of talents has been intensified. In recent years, the country has arranged more than 2,100 scientific and technological development projects in the western region, built 18 scientific research bases, and supported 230 high-tech industrialization demonstration projects. We arranged for the renovation of dilapidated buildings in more than 7,000 rural primary and secondary schools, supported the construction of more than 240 county-level vocational education centers, technical secondary schools, and technical schools, and focused on the construction of infrastructure for 25 colleges and universities, computer campus networks for 152 universities, and more than 500 high-quality county-level high schools. As well as projects such as modern distance education demonstration pilot projects for primary and secondary schools. Support the construction of 260 poverty-stricken county hospitals, more than 800 disease control institutions, more than 290 blood stations and blood centers in the western region, equipped with more than 1,190 family planning mobile service vehicles, more than 770 roving medical vehicles, and more than 60,000 radio and television receivers installations and a number of grassroots cultural facilities. The central state agencies have increased the training of cadres in the western region, and the number of cadres exchanged with the western region has increased. In 2003 alone, 17 provincial and ministerial level cadres exchanged, 220 bureau-level cadres went to the western region for temporary posts; 454 cadres from the western region and ethnic minorities He went to work as a temporary employee in central state agencies and in the eastern region for training. The Organization Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the Ministry of Education and other organizations organized and implemented activities such as the Doctoral Service Corps and the University Student Volunteer Service in the West. (5) Economic structural adjustment continues to advance, and opening up to the outside world is further expanded. The western region has initially formed advantages in specialty products such as hydropower, natural gas, petroleum, non-ferrous metals, cotton, sugar, fruits, and meat. Tourism infrastructure construction has been significantly strengthened. The proportion of the added value of the tertiary industry increased from 35.2% in 1999 to 38.7% in 2002.

The reform, reorganization, and transformation of state-owned enterprises have been intensified, and the individual and private economies have developed rapidly. Nearly a hundred of the world's top 500 companies have invested or set up offices in the western region. A total of US$7.5 billion in foreign direct investment has been utilized in the past four years. Economic cooperation and counterpart assistance between the east and west have been strengthened. Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other provinces and cities alone have invested more than 100 billion yuan in the western region. (6) The pace of economic construction in minority areas has accelerated. The state has increased investment in construction funds and fiscal transfer payments to ethnic minority areas, and all 5 ethnic minority autonomous regions and 30 ethnic minority autonomous prefectures across the country have been included in the scope of western development. The state has made key arrangements for Tibet in the development and investment of the western region. There are 117 construction projects in the fourth round of aid to Tibet, and 70 construction projects in Tibet have been organized to provide counterpart support to relevant provinces and cities, with a total investment of more than 40 billion yuan. The state has laid out a number of key projects in Xinjiang such as west-to-east gas transmission, water conservancy development, watershed management, returning farmland to forest, transportation construction, construction of commercial cotton bases, and exploration of superior resources. Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, and Guangxi Autonomous Regions have rapid investment and economic growth