江泽民同志指出：“到建党一百年时，基本实现现代化，建成富强民主文明的社会主义国家。”武汉市作为华中地区的特大城市，应该率先实现这一目标。我们的总体思路和战略目标是：服务西部大开发，强化两大功能 (全省经济发展的龙头、长江经济带开放开发的战略大支点功能 )，建 Comrade Jiang Zemin pointed out: “By the time we found our party one hundred years, we will basically realize modernization and build a prosperous, strong and democratic socialist country.” Wuhan, as a mega-city in Central China, should take the lead in achieving this goal. Our general idea and strategic goal are to serve the development of the western region, strengthen the two major functions (the leading economic development in the province and the strategic fulcrum function for the opening up and development of the Yangtze River economic belt)