-----내용----- The provinces that lie inland from China's coast cover 56 percent of the country's land area and hold 23 percent of its population--including most of the country's minorities--but their per capita gross domestic product is only 60 percent of the national average. In an effort to close this economic gap, the central government launched the Great Western Development Strategy (Xibu Da Kaifa) in January 2000 to attract and allocate money and other resources for the development of China's poorer, and historically more neglected, central and western regions. A secondary goal of this strategy is to better develop the minority areas, which will tie them closer to the rest of China. ================================================================= The grand scheme Attracting investors A chance for success Where's the beef? The rewards of patience