Xinjiang’s land border is 5.6 million square meters
2 min readXinjiang is located to the east of Central Asia, the hinterland of the Eurasia Continent and has a land borderline of more than 5.600km. accounting for 1/4 of chinas land borderline. Xinjiang is China’s largest provincial administrative region with the longest land borderline and the most neighboring countries. It is also one of the provincial regions with the most foreign trade ports 5,600km is a symbol of friendly exchanges between Xinjiang and its neighboring countries. Xinjiang borders on eight countries–Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan Tajikistan, Pakistan, India and Afghanistan, and closely neighbors Uzbekistan Turkmenistan and ran. Since ancient times, Xinjiang has been a transportation hubbetween East and West countries and an important channel of the ancient silk road Xinjiang, being an important frontier for China open to the west and an international trade bridgehead, has close and frequent economic and cultural exchanges with Central Asia, West Asia, South Asia and Europe and has many time-honored trade routes and ports.
5,600km is a symbol of communication and mutual trade between Xin jiang and the world, Xinjiang is one of the provinces with the most ports in China with 17 first-level ports, 12 second-level ports and 67 counties and cities open to the outside. Among the first-level ports, there are 2 international air ports, the Urumqi and Kashgar air ports; there are 15 first-level land border ports.
Xinjiang, an important channel of the ancient Silk Road in the history, now has become a place which the second”Eurasian Continental Bridge”must pass through The new Eurasian Continental Bridge not only becomes the most convenient and cheapest transportation passageway connecting Asian-Pacific region and the whole Europebut also is a two-way open passageway running from east to west in China, and it is the from the east and out from the westn.
Xinjiang is a main part of the world’s fourth largest economic circle, which includes the Central West and South asian economic circle. following the north american economiccircle. the eu economic circle and the east asian economic circle it has become the bridgehead for China to open to the west and to expand markets in Central, West and South Asia and Russia. Xinjiang plays an irreplaceable role in connecting borders and bridges, introducing investment from abroad and establishing lateral ties at home.linking china and West and promoting the regional cooperation between China and Central，West and South asia.
Xinjiang is becoming an irreplaceable new focus for the mutual exchange and trade among Central，South and West Asia and Europe.Just because of the situation of the strong economic complementarities and the solid foundation of long-term economic and trade cooperation between Xin jiang and neighboring countries，it becomes an important window for the exchanges between China and the world.
