编者的话(英文)

Covering a vast territory, China's western regions occupy 57 percent of the country's land. Resources in the west are relatively abundant—the reserve land, underground minerals, diversified agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry andtourism. But at the same time, the infrastructure in the west is still developing and the local people are not yet fully-fledged participants in the marketeconomy, Eightyfive percent of the country's rural poor are distributed