Environmental effect of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in West China and restricting-guiding mechanism set for them
我国西部地区中小企业发展的环境效应及其约束-引导机制

Developing the west is a proactive policy to boost national economic development in the 21st century, which bears great importance for the sustainable development of the west and the country as a whole. The keystone of developing the west is eco-environmental protection, infrastructure and industrial restructuring; so the problem is how to harmonize the relation between eco-environmental protection and economic growth. Based on this viewpoint, firstly,the article expatiates small and medium-sized enterprises upon developing the west. Secondly, the article analyzes the problem of developing the west by discussing the relation between the development of small and medium-sized enterprises and eco-environmental protection. In addition, a completely new consideration of the policy for eco-environmental protection is made in the paper. Finally, the article puts forward some advice for eco-environmental protection in the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. We believe that economic development is a sticking point to solve the problem of environment in west China, especially, to improve the living condition in the region. It is an important strategy to accelerate the development of small and medium-sized enterprises. Properly lifting restriction on pollutant discharges and carrying out flexible policy to close down small enterprises are two important measures for the further development of small and medium-sized enterprises of the western region.