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Since 2004, the economic gap between China's east and west has fallen, according to a report by Tsinghua University. 

The report showed that since 1990, the towel dispenser rate of the dispute between China and the East and West have reached a per capita GDP in 2004, reaching a record $ 0.75 and decreased to 0.6 in 2008. 

Data from National Statistics (NBS) shows the industrial added value in the central and western parts of the carved blanket country has increased more than in the eastern part of the 2006 and 2008.
 
In 2008, the industrial added value increased in central and western areas, 17 per cent, exceeding growth in the east of 6 percentage points, according to NBS.

The country's strategies for developing the west, revitalizing central China and reforming rural areas have been effective, said Hu Angang, the report's project leader and director of the Center for China Study at Tsinghua University.

Over the last ten years, China needs to spend more than 3 billion yuan (about 440 billion U.S. dollars) to strengthen the financial sector in the western regions.

Since the beginning of the global financial crisis, China has a large part of the package of incentives in the central and western regions, in an effort to improve survival and to give new impetus and construction of infrastructure to support the ecological environment, promoting technological innovation and industrial reconstruction after the earthquake there heads.

The economic gap between east and west are restricted by the policies of central government support,  said Cheng Biding, vice president of Chinese society for regional economic development.

However,  the hidden problems, despite economic growth in western regions there,  said Hu, adding that he does not improve the so-called  soft  environmentally significant.

The central and western regions of China needs more people with better skills,  said the expert.

Regional economic disparities and the rural, urban income inequalities have three main shortcomings in China. With the exception of regional economic disparities, the two other deficiencies have been even greater, according to the report.

The Council of State, Government policy guidance on the 10th was taken in October 2009 for sustained economic growth and rapid in the western parts of China to slow the effects of the global buffer.

After the tour policy, the central government will continue to increase investment in the West, focusing on infrastructure construction and environmental protection, among others.