从陕西的区位优势，西部大开发中东联西进的战咯桥头堡作用及其铁路网现状，分析研究21世纪初期西部大开发中陕西铁路发展思路及远景规划。从而抓住西部大开发的契机。交通基础设施先行，促使规划铁路项目尽快变成现实。文中介绍了陕西铁路现状、规划，并提出了加快建设的建议。

Due to the regional superiority of Shaanxi Province, its strategic bridgehead role for connecting to the East and advancing to the West in the great developing West China, as well as the recent situation of its existing railway networks, the developing thinking and the long-range plan of Shaanxi railways in the earlier stage of 21st Century during the great developing West China, are analyzed and studied, so as to seize the opportunity, to establish at first the traffic foundational installations, and to promote the implementation of planned railway construction projects as soon as possible. The present situation and the planning of Shaanxi railways have been introduced in this paper, and suggestions for speeding up the railway constructions are proposed also.