Since economic reform and opendoor policy, China has been in the course of globalization. Under such circumstances, the priority of eastern China makes it “open the world with two ends” and gradually reduces its dependence upon market and resources in inland regions. In contrast, those underdeveloped provinces in central and western China have to, to survive and advance, process and convert local resources such as mineral deposits, and extend industrial chains for additive value of products, attempting to pave an “importsubstituting” and “postexportsubstituting” road of industrialization. Therefore, under global financial crisis, we should choose to expand domestic demand by strengthening regional economic cooperation to promote the integrity of domestic market.

global financial crisis; expansion of domestic demand; regional economic cooperation; integrity of domestic market