在分析西部铁路客货运输需求的基础上，提出目前存在的主要问题，强调了建设铁路运输通道的必要性。阐明了西部铁路网发展目标、铁路通道建设原则，以及区域通道、内部通道、国际通道等主要建设项目规划，并提出了加快西部铁路通道建设的若干政策措施。

On the basis of passenger and freight transport emands analysis of the west rail, the main problems at present are raised, and the need for rail ransport channel is stressed. The west rail network development objectives and the rail channel onstruction principle are clarified, as well as the major construction project plannings of egional channels, internal channels, international channels and so on. And some policy measures o speeding up the construction of west rail channel are proposed.

孙永福（1941－），男，陕西长安县人，中国工程院院士，主要研究方向为铁路工程管理