An Analysis In The Cultivation Of The Growth Pole In The Western Region Of China

More than 30 years after China's reform and opening up, the economy has obtained tremendous achievement as a whole. But the economic disparity between three regions has continued to expand and the western region in the status quo behind needs to be changed urgently. As one of the non-balanced regional development theories, Growth Pole Theory has been widely used as a guiding theory of regional development since it was proposed in 1950s by Perroux. This theory emphasizes the non-balanced development between regions and advises to invest the limited resources to industries or regions with large development potential and high investment return. In that way, the growth pole can gain the development priority and stimulate the growth of other industries or regions through the knock-on effect and strong promoting effect.This paper had demonstrated the necessity and feasibility of cultivation of growth pole in west from both theoretical and empirical analysis. First, this paper built a homogeneous Cobb-Douglas production function of degree one and technology endogenous growth model, compared regional economic growth rates between the growth pole model and uniform distribution of investment mode, then theoretically proved that using the growth pole model would achieve more significant results than the uniform distribution of investment mode during the development process of the backward areas. Second, this paper summarized the successful experiences about the growth pole theory application during the development of the western region in the US and the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta and Bohai Rim Economic Circle in the east China. It also learned the lessons from the failure of Italy and demonstrated that we should build growth poles in the western region based on western region's economic development history and present situation. Finally, this paper provided countermeasures and suggestions about the cultivation of the growth pole in the west. It was suggested that during the growth pole cultivation, we should not only pay attention to the construction of infrastructure, but also emphasize the development of industries with comparative advantage. Also we should attach importance to both industrial development and the urban development and strengthen the combination of industry growth pole and urban growth pole.