Huang Yungsheng
Before the founding of the People’s Republic of China,our regional distri-bution of productivity was quite unbalanced.At that time,heavy industry wasmainly centralized in the northeast,while light industry in such cities asShanghai,Tianjing,Guangzhou and so on.Over 30 years since liberation,ourcountry invested over half of her capital outlay in inland to accelerate theeconomic development of inland and some minority nationality regions,andchange the unbalanced,backward,lopsided industrial distribution of old Chinapreliminarily.At the same time,we utilized the industry of coastal areas fullyand developed it rationally,played the role of original industrial bases fully,andcarried out its proper reconstruction,extension and new-construction.In any country,whether it be the United states,the Soviet Union,the Statesof the European Economic Community or Japan,the development of the regionaldistribution of their productivity was waved from unbalance to balance.And ittook a long time for them to develop their new economic bases gradually,dependingon their developed old bases of ecomomy.In our socialist construction,we should understand and apply consciouslythe unbalance law of regional economic development and the regional division lawof labour,and arrange for the optimized regional distribution of productivity,based on different natural,economic and technological conditions of various regio-ns.we should handle correctly the relationship between developed regions and un-developed regions,promote and support the economic development of undevelopedregions through developing the economu of developed regions,taking the oldbases of developed regions as foothold anb dase area for undeveloped regions.