改革开放以来 ,中国东、西部地区间经济差距、通信差距逐步扩大 ,已妨碍了国家经济的可持续发展。文章将电信普遍服务政策与理论放在西部大开发的背景中去探究 ,指出了西部开发对电信业的要求及电信普遍服务在西部开发战略中的地位和意义 Since the reform and opening up, the economic gap and the communication gap between China’s eastern and western regions have gradually widened, which has hindered the sustainable development of the country’s economy. This article probes into the telecommunication universal service policy and theory in the background of the western development, points out the requirements for the development of telecommunications in the western region and the status and significance of the universal service for telecommunications in the strategy for the development of the western region