Science and technology are major factors for production and constitute the foundation on which initiative in the competition in market can be secured. But in the West of China the progress made in the system transition of Science and technology is very slow; and the level of the transition in China's West is very low.Consequently China's West now has only a poor capacity for developing innovations in local economy.As a result, the progress in reform is impeded.Now it is imperative to quicken the development rate of the local economy in the West.In the concluding part of this paper is offered to the government a countermeasure for improving the existing situation in the West.