Since the beginning of the new century, the XPCC, unhesitatingly following the developing strategy and instructions of the central government toward  Xinjiang and the XPCC, has given top priority to its development in implementation of cultivating and guarding the border areas. While seizing the strategic opportunity of “Developing the Western Area”, the XPCC, making fully use of the XPCC’s great agriculture and Xinjiang’s mine resource advantages, has made  great endeavors to build producing and processing bases for agricultural and sideline products and for exploiting and utilizing bases of mine resources. And meanwhile, it has also put into practice the sustainable development strategies of preponderant resources transform, invigorating the XPCC through science and education and rejuvenating the XPCC with talented people. 
        To build harmonious XPCC and new-pattern state farms with the historic mission of cultivating and guarding the frontier areas, the XPCC has accelerated the industrialized operation of agriculture, the development of new-style industries and townified construction, and strengthened environment protection and construction. Through all above efforts, the national economy of the XPCC has seen fast development and its comprehensive economic strength has risen rapidly. In 2006 the gross national production of the XPCC increased from 17.6 billion yuan in 2000 to 38.01 billion yuan in 2006, up 11.5%. The per-capita GDP grew to 14750 yuan, an annual rising of 12.2 % over last year. The industrial structure has been also adjusted and optimized. In the Gross domestic product(GDP), the primary, secondary and tertiary industry accounted respectively for 39%, 26%，35% and the contribution made by three industries to the economic increase reached severally 35.7%, 32.1% and  32.2%.

Translation by: Gong Jianmin (From the Foreign affairs office of XPCC)