内容摘要： 民族地区是西部大开发的区域主体和主要依托，因此，21世纪初的西部大开发本质上是民族地区的大开发。随着西部大开发战略阶段性地推进，民族地区开发也历经了以谋篇布局为开端、以基础设施建设为重点、以培育自我发展能力为核心三个阶段。尽管西部大开发以来民族地区经济发展迅速，但民族地区经济自我发展能力较弱，贫困落后问题依然比较突出，民族地区仍然是全面建设小康社会的难点和重点。根源在于区域战略定位不清、经济增长方式传统以及民生改善的欠缺。因此，加快民族地区的发展需要进一步明确新的阶段性重点，在明确的区域战略定位指导下，转变经济增长方式，实现民生改善。

Abstract: Ethnic regions constitute the regional body and the main support of the Western development. Therefore, the Western development in the early 21st century relies on the development of ethnic regions. With the gradual advance of Western development strategies, the development of ethnic regions has also gone through three stages of planning, focusing on infrastructure construction and fostering self- development capabilities. In the Western development, although economy has developed rapidly in ethnic regions, these regions are still weak in economic self-development capacity, poverty and backwardness are still prominent problems and these regions still lag behind in the building of a well-off society. These are the results of unclear regional strategic orientation, traditional way of economic growth and failure to improve people＇s livelihood. Therefore, to speed up the development of ethnic regions, focuses in different stages should be further clarified, and the mode of economic growth should be changed to improve people＇s livelihood under the guidance of a clear regional strategic orientation.

关键词：民族地区;西部大开发;区域战略定位;经济增长方式;民生改善;

作者：谭振义 (中南财经政法大学经济学院), 赵凌云

来源： 《中央民族大学学报：哲学社会科学版》 2013年 第6期

中图分类号：F127.8