科技部部长朱丽兰指出:西部开发———科技当先行记者:在西部大开发中科技先行是一个十分重要的思路。请您谈谈这一思路是如何确立的？朱丽兰:去年６月,江泽民同志在西安召开的西北５省区国企改革和发展座谈会上明确提出:“加快开发西部地区,是全国发展的一个大战略、大思路。? Minister of Science and Technology Zhu Lilan pointed out: As the forerunner of science and technology in the western region development, sci-tech advancement in the great western development is a very important idea. Please talk about how this idea was established? Zhu Lilan: In June last year, Comrade Jiang Zemin made it clear at the forum on state-owned enterprise reform and development in the five northwestern provinces and autonomous regions held in Xi’an: “Speeding up the development of the western region is a grand strategy and a great train of thought for the development of the whole country.”