The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences released Blue Paper on July 24th. It is predicted that the economic growth rate of China’s western region is about 13%, higher than other growth rates nationwide.
Blue Paper shows, from 2006 to 2010, the average GDP growth rate of the western region is 13.9%, an increase of 0.9% ,1.3% and 0.7% respectively more than the whole national,the eastern region and the western region of china . The western region proportion is increased from 17.33% in 2006 to 18.68% in 2010. Meantime, its secondary industry proportion has an rising trend, already increased from 45.21% to 50.09%.