水、交通、资金、技术、人力资源或制度等要素相对稀缺虽然在一定程度上影响了西部地区的发展,但是地理空间格局不经济则是西部地区发展的致命“硬伤”。西部地理空间格局不经济集中表现在:首先,在可以预见的将来,世界人口和经济将继续以大西洋沿岸地区为中心。而中国西部深居欧亚大陆腹地,绝大多数城市和聚落距离世界人口和经济中心较远,对外交流的空间交易成本高、效率低;其次,由 Although the relative scarcity of water, transportation, capital, technology, human resources or systems and other factors has affected the development of the western region to a certain extent, the uneconomical geospatial structure is a lethal “flawed ” development in the western region. The uneconomical western geographic spatial pattern is manifested in: First, for the foreseeable future, the world’s population and economy will continue to center on the Atlantic coast. While the western part of China lives in the hinterland of Eurasia. Most cities and settlements are far away from the world’s population and economic center. The cost of foreign exchange is high and the transaction cost is low. Secondly,