党的十六大把全面建设小康社会作为全党全国人民今后的奋斗目标,为我们指明了发展的方向。当前,人们都普遍意识到没有西部少数民族地区的发展就不可能有全国的发展,没有西部少数民族地区的小康就不可能有全国的全面小康。国家确定的西部大开发战略,正是为了维护祖国统一、民族团结、边疆边防巩固、全面建设小康社会而作出的 The 16th National Congress of the CPC takes the goal of building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way as the goal for the entire party and the people across the country in the future and gives us the direction of development. At present, people are all aware that there can be no national development without the development of the western minority areas. Without a well-off society in the western minority areas, there can be no nationwide well-to-do society. The strategy for the large-scale development of the western region as set by the country was exactly for the purpose of safeguarding the unification of the motherland, national unity, frontier defense and consolidation of the frontier areas and building an overall well-to-do society