Author(s)

Na Tian

Corresponding Author

Na Tian

ABSTRACT

The two decades of western development and the continued advancement of the "Belt and Road" strategy has highlighted the policy orientation of the state’s development towards the West and as well as the transfer of regional strategy. The West has become the important growth pole under the new normal of China’s economy. Comrade Deng Xiaoping’s strategic thinking of “ two overall situations ” has been the theoretical guidance to solve the contradiction between regional economic balance and growth in China. China’s economy has entered the stage of balanced and high-quality development as a whole, and the rise of the West has become the goal of the balanced growth of China’s regional economy. Accompanied by the unbalanced process of the western growth pole, western development is the inevitable stage to achieve the economic growth. However, in terms of the longer space-time dimension, agglomerate economies and economy of scale that produced by polarization effect has a certain limitations, and uneven development within the region has become the important reason why the western region lags behind the eastern and central developed areas for a long time. Therefore, western main cities and growth pole should enter the diffusion stage and establish high level and multilevel growth system in order to improve the duration and intensity of regional economic growth and get the effect that the whole is greater than the sum of individuals.

KEYWORDS

The West, Balanced Growth, Multilevel System