关键词: 梯度推移, 东业西移, 西部大开发

Abstract: As is known to all there exists unbalance in industry and economy among different countries and different regions. Generally speaking, industries at high-level regions may spontaneously move to low-level regions for room of further development. In a large country such as China it is only natural that we take advantage of this tendency to encourage waves of gradual movements among areas with different levels of economic growth. The author points out that since the second half of 1990s, relative advantages of labor-intensified industries in East China have been weakened or even disappeared. In addition, a sufficient industrial gap between East China and Central or West China has become quite evident. At this point, it is natural that labor-intensified industries in East China should move towards the west.

Key words: gradual move, a movement towards the west, development of the west regiox