Evaluation of China’s Decade-long West Development Strategy

SHAN Haipeng

Hebei University of Economics and Business
Abstracts:

The objective of the West China Development Strategy was to boost economic development and to narrow the gap between eastern and western China. After ten years of implementation, now is the proper time to summarize and evaluate the performance so that more suitable measures can be adopted in the subsequent stage. Applying quantitative and qualitative methods, the author investigates the economic and social changes of the western regions between 1999 and 2008, and evaluates their performances based on the following factors: total economic output, the speed of economic growth, industrial structure, standard of living and infrastructure construction.

Key Words:

West China Development, ten years, performance evaluation

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