中文摘要：

提升自我发展能力对于加快我国西部欠发达地区经济发展具有重要意义。在文献分析的基础上，提出区域自我发展能力是区域资源的存量能力、利用能力和创生能力等三方面子能力的集合，据此构建了区域自我发展能力的结构化指标体系和评价模型，运用层次分析法确定指标权重。在此基础上，对我国31个省区自我发展能力进行了测算和比较分析，结果表明，西部地区自我发展能力整体较弱，西部12省区的区域自我发展能力综合指数与子能力指数和东部发达省区相比差距较大，资源的利用能力和创生能力较弱是影响西部地区自我发展能力的关键因素。

英文摘要：

Self- development capability is a critical component to accelerate the economic development in the underdevdoped region of western China. Throngh literature analysis reviewed, regional self- development capability could be considered as the combination of the three aspects of stock ability, utilizing ability, and innovative ability of the resources. Under the theoretical basis, the structural indi- cation and appraisal model of self- development capability were built with AHP to assign the weight of each indicator. Consequently, the self- development capability of 31 provinces was measured and comp~tively analysed. According to the empirical results, self- develop- ment capability of western region was totally vulnerable, and there was a great gap of self- development capability comprehensive index be- tween the western provinces and developed eastern provinces in China. The utilizing ability and innovative ability of resources appealed an ultimate factor on the self- development capability of western China.