我们冷静地观察我国90年代以来客观存在着的地区变化格局,不难发现中部地区已经成为21世纪中国经济发展重心向内地转移的第一梯度。90年代以来,中部地区的发展已经呈现出良好的态势,其发展速度快于沿海和西部,中部地区与沿海的差距在缩小,与西部的差距 As we calmly observe the objectively changing pattern of the region since the 1990s, we can easily find that the central region has become the first gradient in the shift of China’s economic development center to the Mainland in the 21st century. Since the 1990s, the development in the central region has shown a good momentum. Its development speed is faster than that in the coastal areas and the western areas. The gap between the central areas and the coastal areas is narrowing. The gap with the western areas