I . Survey
(i) Geographical Location
Xinjiang Production and Construction
Corps (XPCC for short), also called China Xinjian Group, is distributed
within the boundaries of 67 counties of 13 prefectures in Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is located
in the northwestern part of China, 73°40’E -96°23’E, 34°25’N -49°10 ‘ N, with an area of
1,664,900 square kilometers, covering one sixth of China's
total area. Xinjiang is situated in the hinterland of Eurasia, bordering
8 countries from northeast to southwest, namely, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, with a border line of
5,600 kilometers. It is a region with the longest border line and
the largest number of ports opening to the outside world in China. Once an important channel
along the ancient Silk Road, it is now the second bridgehead of
"Eurasian continental railway".
(ii) Climate
Xinjiang has a temperate continental
climate, with long and severely cold winter, short and burning hot
summer, greatly variable spring and autumn. Annual average temperature
in South Xinjiang is 10℃,
that in Junggar Basin, North Xinjiang, 5.0 -7. 5℃,
that in Altay and Tacheng 2 . 5 -5.0℃.
Xinjiang is an arid area , withinsufficientand uneven distributed
precipitation of 150-200 millimeters in North Xinjiang and less
than 1 0 0 millimeters in South Xinjiang.
In winter, it is often snowy in Xinjiang .
In the plains i n North Xinjiang , thereis always snow with a depth
of 20-30 centimeters, maximum 80 centimeters ; about 1 0 centimeters
in South Xinjiang. In South Xinjiang,
the frost-free period is 180-220 days, that in North
Xinjiang is 140-185 days.
(iii) Population and Nationalities At the
end of 2005, XPCC had a total population of 2.5698 million, including
an urban population of 673,400, farm population in farming and animal
husbandry regiment of 1.8964 million, respectively covering 26.2%
and 73.8% of the total population.
XPCC is a place where 38 nationalities gather,
including Han, Uygur, Kazak, Hui, Mongolian, Sibo, Tadjik, Russian,
Uzbek, Tatar and Manchu. At the end of 2005, XPCC Han population
was 2.2573 million, that of Uygur 178,700, that of Kazak 43,100,
that of Hui 65,200, that of Mongolian 6,500, that of other nationalities
18,900.
(iv) Infrastructure and Transportation
Aviation
Xinjiang has now 12 civil airports, 127 airlines
including 82 domestic airlines and 45 international airlines, with
an air route in use of 119,500 kilometers, forming an airline network
structure with Urumqi Airport
as regional hub and becoming international gateway in the western
part of China. Xinjiang General Aviation
Company under the jurisdiction of XPCC has 35 airplanes, mainly
used in agricultural production, resisting against natural calamities
and rushing to deal with emergencies.
Railways
North Xinjiang Railway, South Xinjiang Railway
and Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway pass through the entire area. With
a business mileage of 2,925 kilometers, Xinjiang has greatly improved
its railway transportation ability.
Highways
With a traffic mileage of 89,500 kilometers
(including 31,700 kilometers under jurisdiction of XPCC), Xinjiang
has formed a highway traffic transportation network consisting of
Turpan-Urumgi- Dahuang High-grade Highway and Urumqi- Kuytun Expressway
with Urumqi as center. 7 national highways function as primary skeleton,
linking Gansu and Qinghai provinces in the east, various countries
in Central Asia and West Asia in the west, Tibet in the south, and
68 provincial highways, which link prefectures and cities, counties
(regiment farms) and townships (companies).
In 2005, XPCC had 251,830 vehicles of various
kinds including 62,689 civil vehicles, 27,770 transport business
vehicles, 41,665 employees engaged in transportation completed 76
graded passenger stations, 1 graded freight terminal and 4 logistic
centers, with XPCC North Urumqi Logistic Center as an important part of Urumqi highway hub.
There are 29 independent accounting transportation enterprises including
3 with foreign transportation management qualification. Xinjiang
Passenger Transportation Group Company includes 12 passenger transportation
enterprises, with class 2 qualification of national passenger transportation
enterprise.
Telecommunication and Internet
Xinjiang has rapidly developed data communication
network and multi-media network, completed ATM broadband networks
covering various prefectures, divisions and cities, carried out
construction of IP broadband network and metropolitan area network,
initially formed an integrated modernized communication system consisting
of stored program controlled switching, opticalfiberc ommunication,
digital microwave, satellite communication and mobile communication.
At the end of 2005, the entire region had 6.122 million fixed telephone
users, 5.313 million mobile telephone users and 1.0578 million Internet
users.
Finance
Xinjiang has hadsteady operation of finance.
In 2005, it had a deposit balance of 35.817 billion Yuan, including
enterprise deposit of 7.725 billion Yuan, residents�� saving deposit
of 18.014 billion Yuan. Agriculture Bank of China XPCC Branch network
is mainly distributed in cities such as Urumqi, Shihezi, Korla, Aksu, Kashi, Yining
and Wujiaqu, and XPCC divisions and their farming and animal husbandry
regiment farms. This branch administers 1 business office, 2 secondary
branches, 7 directly affi liated subbranches, 24 county-level sub-branches
and 264 basic business networks.
Insurance
Xinjiang has steadily expanded its insurance
market. It now has 1,313 insurance organs at various levels, inc
luding 3 7 subsidiary companies with their business spreading in
25 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. In 2005, the
insurance business realized an income of 10.542 billion Yuan.
(v) International Fairs
Since 2002, XPCC Bureau of Commerce and Mechanical
and Electrical Department of the Ministry of Commerce of People��s
Republic of China jointly held China Mechanical and Electrical
Products Exposition and China Commodity Trade Fair and Asia Commodity
Trade Fair in Kazakhstan in succession. Asia
Commodity Trade Fair is the largest fair for trade and investment
in various countries in Central Asia and West
Asia. Successful fairs have much influence in Central
Asia, and have become an important platform for enterprises of China
and Kazakhstan as well as peripheral
Central Asian countries to carry out economic and trade cooperation
and exchanges.
(vi) Higher Education and
Scientifi c Research In 2005, XPCC had 3 regular
higher educational institutions, including 2 undergraduate universities
and 1 college, 1 polytechnic, 1 independent school run by a regular
university, 4 doctorate stations, 58 mastership stations. It has
now 29,000 enrolled undergraduate students, 13,000 current PhD/MS
students, 2,341 full-time regular university teachers.
School Survey:
|
Index
|
School
quantity
|
Enrolled
students quantity
|
Newly enrolled
students
|
Teachers and
employees
|
Full-time
teachers
|
Graduated
students
|
|
In total
|
6
|
42,949
|
14,779
|
4,961
|
2,893
|
12,817
|
|
Regular colleges and universities
|
4
|
30,663
|
9,428
|
4,023
|
2,341
|
6,136
|
|
Adult colleges and universities
|
2
|
12,286
|
5,351
|
938
|
552
|
668
|
XPCC Scientific Research
By 2005, XPCC had had 126,400 technical personnels
of various professions, 5,383 personnels engaged in scientific and
technologicals activities. XPCC and its divisions have 17 independent
scientific research institutions, 15 technology development organizations
of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises. XPCC has formed
a contingent of scientists with strong research, development, application
and promotion abilities.
At present, XPCC has 7 key labs jointly established
by province and ministry, 6 post-doctorate workstations, 2 state
recognized technology centers of enterprise, 1 state-level agricultural
scientific and technological garden, 3 XPCClevel agricultural scientific
and technological gardens, 12 experiment and demonstration centers
of various kinds.
Since 1978, XPCC has obtained 1,317 state-level,
province and ministry level (including XPCC level) scientific and
technological rewards (items/times), including 5 achievements, including��
China Merino (Xinjiang Corps Cultivation type) breeding system��,
��Polyethylene mulching film and mulching planting technology����,
Development, making and promotion of mulching film cotton planting
machinery��, obtaining fi rst Prize of National Science & Technology
Advance (see attached table). In 2005, contribution ratio of advance
of science and technology to XPCC agriculture reached 51%.
|
Awarded Achievement
|
Date and Level
|
Achieving Orgnization
|
|
Japonica rice heterosis utilization
research
|
China Science Congress Prize in 1978
|
Xinjiang Agricultural
Cultivation Bureau
|
|
Sugar beet fine variety�� Shitian
No.1��
|
China Science Congress Prize in 1978
|
Shihezi Agricultural Science
Institute
|
|
Breeding and improvement of
Xinjiang fine fleece sheep for fleece and mutton
|
China Science Congress Prize in 1978
|
Shihezi No. 151 Regiment
|
|
Breeding of Xinjiang budge
sheep
|
China Science Congress Prize in 1978
|
Shihezi No.150 Regiment
|
|
Improvement of heavy alkaline
land
|
China Science Congress Prize in 1978
|
Xinjiang Bayinguolin Prefecture No.29 Regiment
|
|
Breeding of new variety of
China
merino
|
First Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1987
|
Ziniquan Sheep Research
Institute
|
|
Polyethylene mulching film
and mulching planting technology
|
First Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1987
|
XPCC
|
|
Imine method entire cotton
stick papermaking technology
|
First Prize of National Spark
Science & Technology Prize in 1988
|
No.147 Regiment of Agricultural
No.8 Division of XPCC
|
|
Sheep cestodiasis prevention
and control research
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1989
|
Xinjiang Agricultural Science
Academy Husbandry Research Institute
|
|
Sheep Sperm Freeze technology
study and promotion
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1989
|
Xinjiang Agricultural Science
Academy Husbandry Research Institute
|
|
China Merino (Xinjiang Corps
Cultivation type) breeding system
|
First Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1991
|
Xinjiang Agricultural Science
Academy Husbandry Research Institute
|
|
Research, making and promotion
of mulching fi lm cotton planting machinery
|
First Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1995
|
Agriculture Bureau of XPCC
|
|
Breeding selection of Altai
fi ne fl eece sheep for mutton
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1996
|
Xinjiang Agricultural Science
Academy Husbandry Research Institute
|
|
Liquid ammonia fertilization
technology study and promotion
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1997
|
Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural
No.8 Division of XPCC
|
|
Research and promotion of
pipeless submersible pump
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1998
|
No.121 Regiment of No.8 Division
of XPCC
|
|
Comprehensive prevention and
curing research on popular severe sheep parasitic disease
|
Third Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 1999
|
Xinjiang Agricultural Science
Academy Husbandry Research Institute
|
|
Research and demonstration
of cotton under-fi lm drop irrigation comprehensive matching
technology
|
Second Prize of National Science
& Technology Advance Prize in 2004
|
Water Conservancy Bureau of
XPCC
Xinjiang Agricultural Science Academy
|
(vii) Tourism
Xinjiang is rich in natural and artificial
tourist resources. According to resource classification of�� Criterion
of General Investigation of Tourism Resources in China��, Xinjiang has 56 of China��s
68 kinds of tourist resources, ranking first in China. Xinjiang has unusual natural
landscapes, with icy peaks and fire land coexistence, desert and
oasis neighboring, rough natural views, unique landscape combination.
The ancient Silk Road scenic spots
and historic resorts, colorful ethical elegance and cultural arts
attract numerous domestic and international tourists.
At the Central Entertainment Square of Shihezi
Cith of Xinjiang, there is a series of sculptures, named No.1 Plough
of XPCC. Dating back to 1950��s, the fi rst generation of XPCC, answering
the call of CPC, decided to settle in Xinjiang, station troops to
guard the frontier and cultivate the frontier areas, successfully
turning the wilds into fertile land. In order to remember this history,
the No.1 Plough of XPCC Sculptures series were established, which
now becomes a renowned tourism site together with Sculpture of General
Wangzhen and Sculpture of New Rhythm of Frontier Life.
North Lake Park
North Lake, 18 km away in the north of the Shihezi,
is a bright pearl on Manasi River, which combines functions of
tourism destination, aquatic breeding and irrigation as well. North Lake is located at the spring spill
belt of alluvial fan of Tianshan��s north foot with ravine crisscrossing
and the mouths of springs clustering around. Therefore, it was formerly
called�� Great Spring ravine��. The current North Lake covers a wide water area of 11 km2 with blue
waves rippling and boats dotting on the surface of the lake. Sweethearts
walk along the causeway with weeping willow on the lakefront. The
North
Lake lives
dozens of waterfowls such as swan and wide goose, as well as different
kinds of fishes, shrimps and mussels. The North Lake, also known as�� south of the Changjiang River
in the desert��occupies an area of 21 km2 with more than 20 scenic spots such as rockwork,
Lansheng pavilion and Xiaoyao pavilion.
II . Economy
(i) GDP Data
In
2005, XPCC realized a total output value of 33.112 billion Yuan
including an output value of primary industry of 13.064 billion
Yuan, that of secondary industry of 8.335 billion Yuan, that of
tertiary industry of 11.713 billion Yuan with the proportion of
the three industries as 40:25:35, per capita total output value
as 12,900 Yuan.

(ii)
Natural Resources
Land
Resources XPCC has a total acreage of 7.45627 million hectares,
including land for agricultural use of 4.19264 million hectares,
land for construction use of 0.20989 million hectares, unused land
of 3.05374 million hectares. Land for agricultural use includes:
farmland of 0.10465 million hectares, garden plot of 0.06358 million
hectares, woodland of 0.14216 million hectares, pastures of 2.4269
million hectares, other land for agricultural use of 0.21935 million
hectares.
Mineral
Resources
Xinjiang
has minerals of complete types and large reserves, broad development
prospect. Out of the 171 known kinds of minerals in China, Xinjiang has discovered 138 kinds
with verified resource reserves of 117 kinds, including 5 kinds
of reserves ranking fi rst in China, 24 kinds in the first five places
in China, 43
kinds in the first ten places in China, 23 kinds ranking first
in the northwest. Xinjiang has rich reserves of petroleum, natural
gas, coal, gold, chromium, copper, nickel, rare metals, salt minerals,
bentonite, building materials and nonmetallic materials. According
to forecast, Xinjiang has forecast coal stock size of 2.19 trillion
billion tons, covering 40% of the total amount in China, ranking
fi rst; that of oil 20.86 billion tons, covering 30% of the total
land oil stock size in China, that of natural gas 10.3 trillion
cubic meters, covering 34% of the total land natural gas stock size,
and other famous resources since ancient times such as gold, gem
and jade.
Water
Resources
Xinjiang
has annual surface water resources (utilization of surface water)
of 8.9 billion cubic meters, exploitable ground water resources
of 5.2 billion cubic meters, an effective irrigated area of 1 million
hectares, and water-saving area of 53.9 hectares. By the end of
2005, XPCC had 114 reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 3.163
billion cubic meters, including 11 large-scale reservoirs with a
storage capacity of 1.876 billion cubic meters, 27 mediumsized reservoirs
with a storage capacity of 1.109 billion cubic meters, 76 small
reservoirs with a storage capacity of 216 million cubic meters,
irrigation canals with a total length of 99,400 kilometers including
26,700 kilometers under penetration protection, drainage channel
with a total length of 42,600 kilometers, 102,400 channel buildings
of various kinds, 10,600 electromechanical pump wells including
10,200 with support facilities and with a water furnishing ability
of 299.03 cubic meters per second, a water lifting quantity of 1.45
billion cubic meters, 115 locations of 10,000-mu irrigation areas
including 7 locations of 500,000-mu irrigation areas, 11 locations
of 20,000-30,000-hectare irrigation areas. It has embankment with
a total length of 2,107 kilometers, a population of 1.44 million
under protection, farmland with an area of 0.3678 million hectares
under protection. It constructed 90 sluices on the river including
3 large-scale sluices, 26 mediumsized sluices and 61 small sluices.
XPCC has a total irrigated area of 1.17112 million hectares, water
conservancy projects with an annual water supply of 13.06 billion
cubic meters, including 11.755 billion cubic meters for agricultural
water supply, 70 million cubic meters for industrial water supply,
148 million cubic meters for urban and rural domestic water and
87 million cubic meters for ecologic use.
Biological
Resources
Situated
at the communications center of Eurasia
with combination of East and West animal and plant varieties, and
diverse and unique physical geographic conditions, Xinjiang is extremely
rich in biological resources.
Xinjiang
has complete temperate zone crops, with wheat, corn, paddy rice
as main crops. In most areas it is suitable to plant miscellaneous
grains such as sorghum, barley, soybean, pea, mung bean, broad bean,
millet, millet and sweet potato. The Ili River valley is always known as�� Xinjiang
granary��.
��Tianshan
snow�� rice is as clean as pearl bead, with fine texture and fragrant
taste. Economic crops include cotton, beet, rape, sunflower, hops,
aspic, flax, tobacco and medicinal materials. XPCC�� upland cotton,
long-staple cotton and color cotton kapok, beet, oil-bearing crops,
hops and ketchup ranking first in both output and quality in China��s agricultural cultivation,
cotton yield of per unit area and per capita occupancy ranking fi
rst in China.
Xinjiang
is known as�� home-town of fruits and melons��. The common fruits
and melons include: melon (Hami melon), watermelon, apple, bergamot
pear, grape, apricot, peach, plum, red jujube, pomegranate, cherry,
fig, walnut and almond, vegetable crops are quite rich, including
cabbage, spinach, coriander, wild cabbage, yellow radish, green
radish, potato, spring onions, kidney bean, tomato, onion, red pepper,
eggplant, celery, Chinese chive, cucumber, bottle gourd, balsam
pear, pumpkin, sponge gourd, wax gourd. Various temperate zone fruits,
vegetables and melons can be seen everywhere.
Xinjiang
is one of the five big pastoral areas with many animals with sheep
ranking first in quantity, followed by horse, cattle, goat, donkey,
camel, mule, pig and deer, fowls including chicken, duck and goose,
Ili horse, Yiwu horse, Yanqi horse, Balikun horse, Shihezi land
reclamation fine-wool sheep, Altay fatrumped sheep, Xinjiang brown
cattle, Kuqa black budge sheep, and ili dairy and beef cattle quite
famous. XPCC meat output ranks fi rst in output in China��s agricultural cultivation.
Xinjiang
has 90 kinds of fish, including quite precious Buluntuo Lake and
Erqis River sturgeon, salmon, River perch, Silver prussian carp,
siberian roach, Pikeperch, Gold Crucian Carp, Leuciscus idus, Burbot,
European bream, and loving Buluntuo Lake and Erqis River River perch,
Culter, Bositeng Lake pipefi sh, Barbless carp, Ili River Carp and
Perch.
In
terms of wild plants, there are edible, medicinal, technical, sandfixation
and appreciation plants of 132 species, 856 families, nearly 4,000
kinds, including over 1,000 kinds of economic and medicinal plants,
over 100 kinds of rare plants, such as liquorice, Fritillary Bulb,
Safflower, Snow Lotus, Desertliving Cistanche, Dwarf Lilyturf Tuber
, Chinese Angelica, Tangshen Root, Chinese Asafoetida, Desertliving
Cistanche, gentian, Ephedra Herb, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit and medlar.
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has its licorice ranking first
in terms of both area and yield in China��XPCC has a licorice area
of 26,700 hectares.
Furthermore,
Xinjiang has diversiformleaved poplar, narrow-leaved oleaster, wild
apple, wild walnut, wild apricot, wild almond tree, wild Chinese
hawthorn, shiny-leaved yellow-horn, wild rose, bluish dogbane, rubber
grass, reed, splendid achnatherum and sacsaoul grass. Xinjiang��s
diversiformleaved poplar area covers 95% that in China. XPCC administers a diversiform
-leaved poplar area of 40,000 hectares.
Xinjiang
has 580 kinds of wild animals including over 340 kinds of birds,
over 130 kinds of mammals with over 80 kinds listed as rare animals
under national protection. 20 kinds are of fi rst category animals
under national protection, mainly including wild horse, wild yak,
wild camel, Tibetan wild ass, Mongolian wild ass, Xinjiang tiger,
snow leopard, Tibetan antelope, saiga, beaver, wolverine, white
stork, black stork, white crane, black-necked crane, whiteshouldered
vulture, spot-billed pelican, Tibetan snow cock, peregrine falcon
and Horned Grebe .
Xinjiang
has 67 kinds of animals under national second category protection,
mainly including brown bear, sable, lynx, red deer, ibex, swan, jade belt sea vulture.
In addition, there are many common wild animals such as Bositeng
Lake and Tarim riverside muskrat, oasis and desert
hare, Tianshan and Altay pasture marmot, Mongolian gazelle, wolf,
fox, Huocheng Horsfield��s tortoise including red deer, muskrat,
snow cock and mink, which are successfully tamed and reproduced
in XPCC reclamation area and becoming important materials to earn
foreign exchange through export.
(iii)
Animal Husbandry Development
XPCC
has agriculture as its economic foundation and superiority, and
agricultural modernization take lead in China. With farmland of 1.05
million hectares, sown area of 0.98 million hectares, gardening
production area of 140,000 hectares. XPCC is China��s most important high quality
cotton production center and biggest watersaving agricultural irrigation
area, with a cotton output of 0.987 million tons, covering one sixth
of China��s total
cotton, export covering a half of China��s total cotton export.
XPCC has its Jin Brand, Yinli Brand and Beijiang Brand cotton rank
the first three places among China��s top ten brands, Xinnong Brand among
the top ten best sellers at China��s cotton market. XPCC has
had its cotton, grape, tomato, bergamot pear, red deer, dairy products
and feed form specialized production, processing and industrialized
production management, processing tomato productivity reach 600,000
tons ranking second in the same trade in the world and the products
sell well in more than 40 countries and regions. grape wine productivity
reached 120,000 tons, with alcohol brewing grape planting area of
150,000 mu ranking first in China
and Asia. Its 6 pillar industries, namely, cotton industry,
grain, oil and sugar processing industry, fruits and vegetables
processing industry, livestock products, alcohol industry and seed
industry rapidly developed.
In
2005, XPCC had a total agricultural output value of 27.352 billion
Yuan, and continued to adjust crop planting structure. It had a
sown area of 985,800 hectares, including grain sown area of 228,000
hectares, cotton sown area of 471,700 hectares, oil sown area of
46,500 hectares, beet sown area of 20,500 hectares. The output of
main agricultural products such as grain, cotton, beet and fruits
greatly increased, with cotton output creating a historical new
record.
Main
Agricultural Products Output:
|
Product
Name
|
Absolute
Number
|
|
Cereals
|
143.48
|
|
Wheat
|
65.78
|
|
Corn
|
46.28
|
|
Bean
|
5.00
|
|
Oil
plants
|
9.53
|
|
Rapeseed
|
2.77
|
|
Sunflower
seed
|
6.27
|
|
Cotton
|
98.68
|
|
Sugar
beet
|
130.85
|
|
Fruit
|
45.90
|
|
Vegetables
|
284.52
|
Artificial
afforestation area of 21,800 hectares completed, including 9,700
hectares returning land for farming to forestry.
Amount
of livestock on hand at the end of the year: 7.8318 million, main
livestock products such as meat, wool and milk with a comprehensive
output increase.
Aquatic
products output in 2005: 20,000 tons. Total power of agriculture
machinery in 2005: 2.493 million KW.
Husbandry
Production:
Unit: 10,000 pieces, 10,000 tons
|
Index
|
Number
|
|
Amount
of livestock on hand at the end of the year
|
783.18
|
|
|