On Deng Xiaoping's "Two Important Matters" In The Region Economy Thought

The economic gap between East China and West China has been a long exiting problem. To narrow the gap, the Party leaders of three generations , Mao Zedong , Deng Xiaoping , and Jiang Zemin , implemented different strategies to develop regional economy. Mao adopted the strategy of balanced development, supporting and constructing West China with an economic layout in proportion. Deng Xiaoping, learning lessons from previous experience and absorbing its rational factors, applied the strategy of unbalanced development, giving priority to coastal areas over the west and leading the west to common wealth. Therefore, he offered the famous proposition of "Two Important Matters", which is "The eastern coast region should open door to the-outside world , and made this vast region with 20 million people fast and firstly develop, and further propelled the inland develop well. This was a problem concerning the important matter, and the inland region must care it. Reversely, when the economy of the coast region get a better development, and the coast region asked took a more length to help the inland region develop, this was also an important matter. In that time, the coast region also should obey it." Through the actualization of the first important: matter, the eastern coast region already proceed into fairly well-off. At the same time, the economic gap between the eastern region and the western region was gradually enlarged, and the unbalance development trend of the regional economy was formed. It created the precondition for the third generation leadership actualizing the great development of western region. The third generation leadership with the core of Jiang Zemin paid more attention on the reduction of region difference. They offered the strategy thought of the region economy unbalanced harmonydevelopment during the adapting and practicing Deng's "Two Important Matters". They also actualized the western region development strategy according to propriety opportunity. The western development is the specific action of the implementing Deng's "Two Important Matters". Therefore, it is significant that Deng's proposition of "Two Important Matters" reduced our country's region development difference, advanced the economy harmony development and realized the common wealth.The method of integration of theory and practice and the method of comparison was used in this paper to analyze the influence to socialist modernization drive form there generations' different region economy development strategy. It unveils the special regular that how to used situation (open door to the outside world) and create situation ( revitalization of the domestic economy ) to development the economy for an under-developed marketing economy and culture country from the unbalanced development of regional economy to the unbalanced harmony development of the regional economy-creating condition from no condition to develop economy.Through the system research of the proposition and practice of Deng's "Two Important Matters" in this article, the contribution of the "Two Important Matters" in the socialist modernization drive in different period is clear, and it can enrich the region economy development theory in home and abroad.