During the 30 years from the founding of New China to 1978, the China government has been committed to a balanced development strategy, and various investment policies and financial payment transfers have obviously tilted towards remote and backward areas, but the results are not good and the price paid is very high. Since 1978 implemented the reform and opening-up, great changes have taken place in the regional economic development strategy of China government, from a balanced development strategy to an unbalanced development strategy. Priority is given to the development of coastal areas, and the policy of development and opening up is obviously inclined to the coastal areas, which has enabled the coastal areas to develop rapidly and rapidly widened the economic development gap between the coastal areas and the mainland. Judging from the regional GDP, Guangdong Province was 6543.8+3626 million yuan in 2003. It is equivalent to 3 Hunan (463.9 billion yuan) or 10 Guizhou (136.5 billion yuan) or 35 Qinghai (39 billion yuan). In terms of per capita GDP, in 2003, Zhejiang was 20 147 billion yuan, three times that of Jiangxi (6678 yuan) and four times that of Gansu.
(2) the economic development gap between the eastern, central and western regions.
In 1930s, Professor Hu Huanyong, a famous population geographer in China, described the unbalanced distribution of physical geography, population geography and economic geography in China with a simple line: from Aihui County, Heilongjiang Province in the northeast to Tengchong County, Yunnan Province in the southwest, China was divided into two parts, with the western part accounting for 49.2% of the country's total area, but the population only accounting for 3.7% of the country's total population; The eastern region accounts for 50.8% of the total population of the country, while the population accounts for 96.3% of the total population of the country. Correspondingly, the west is poor and the east is rich. "Hu Huanyong Line" only describes the geographical dividing line between the east and the west of China, which is a vast territory. At present, China's regional economy is divided into three major economic zones according to administrative provinces, namely, east, middle and west, supplemented by the level of economic development.
(3) the gap of economic development among provinces.
Among the regional GDP in 2003, the highest in Guangdong reached 136259 billion yuan, while the lowest in Tibet was only 1845 billion yuan, and Guangdong was 74.7 times that of Tibet. In 2003, the regional GDP index (last year = 100), the highest in Inner Mongolia was 1 16. The difference is 82. In 2003, the gross industrial output value of Guangdong, Jiangsu, Shandong, Zhejiang and Shanghai were 2151350 million yuan,1803.67 billion yuan,153.8 billion yuan and1286.42 billion yuan respectively. Guizhou has only 265.438+0.4 billion yuan, 24.79 billion yuan, 33.35 billion yuan, 35.28 billion yuan and 97.76 billion yuan respectively. The last five are all below 654.38+0.000 billion yuan, and the top five are all above 654.38+0.000 billion yuan.
(4) the gap of economic development between the North and the South.
(5) the gap between urban and rural economic development