Kashgar region is rich in material resources, annual output of 2 million tons of grain, cotton production of 8 million quintals, is the country's largest high-quality cotton base, but also the prestigious town of fruits and melons, 3.84 million acres of fruits and forests, an annual output of 1.05 million tons of fresh and dry fruit, is the world's six fruit resource base and the country's largest fresh and dry fruit base. There are many kinds of mineral resources, two 200-million-ton oil and gas fields have been proved, and gypsum reserves are among the largest in China.
(2) geographic location advantages
Kashgar region around Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, India and other eight countries bordering or adjacent to the border is 888 kilometers long, there are Hongqi Lap, Irkeshtan, Karasu, the international airports of the five first-class port and the new Yifa International Trade City, a second-class port open to the outside world, is China's opening up to the countries of Central Asia South Asia, an important gateway, is China to the Central Asia South Asia. It is an important gateway for China to open up to the countries in Central and South Asia, and it is also the throat of the new Asia-Europe continent channel which is the most important and the closest to China to Central and South Asia and West Asia as well as to the European continent. Kashgar is 730 kilometers away from Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, 1260 kilometers away from Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, and 1420 kilometers away from Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, which is even closer than the distance from Kashgar to Urumqi. The advantages of such a cluster of ports make the location and transportation advantages of Kashgar region increasingly visible.
(C) humanistic and historical advantages
Kashgar is located at the intersection of the southern and northern routes of the ancient Silk Road, and is the economic and cultural crossroads of the East and West. Ancient Indian culture, Roman culture, Ancient Greek culture, and Islamic culture have all been stationed in Kashgar and the vast Central Asian countries, shaping the ethnic minorities in the region and the Central Asian peoples who are of similar bloodlines, languages, customs and cultures, and this unique humanistic and historical advantage has provided the Kashgar region with the opportunity for the development of the humanistic and cultural advantages. This unique cultural and historical advantages for the Kashgar region to create favorable conditions for export-oriented economic development.
(D) export-oriented market demand advantage
Kashgar has a huge consumer market around the eight countries of Central and South Asia. At present, five Central Asian countries*** have a population of 54.87 million, three South Asian countries*** have a population of 1.237 billion. On the one hand, from the point of view of consumption level, these areas with the further recovery of the economy, the level of consumption has been greatly improved, on the necessities of life and transportation, medical equipment, chemical equipment, electric locomotives and other commodities have a strong demand, the market potential is huge. On the other hand, the South Asian countries in Central Asia are extremely rich in natural resources, energy resources reserves, but other economic and industrial base is relatively weak, these relative to China's current economic situation, the two sides in all aspects of the economy has a great mutual benefit and complementarity for the development of outward-oriented economy of the Kashgar region provides a huge space.
(E) Policy Advantages
State Council Document No. 32, "Several Opinions of the State Council on Further Promoting the Economic and Social Development of Xinjiang" (2007) clearly puts forward the focus on supporting the development of the three southern border regions to take advantage of the location of the ports of the border trade, commerce and circulation and import-export processing industry, and Kashgar is positioned as a regional trade and tourism center city facing Central Asia and the opening up of the west. Frontier. Xinjiang "Eleventh Five-Year Plan" put forward to speed up opening up to the outside world to achieve a major breakthrough. 2006 Kashgar region issued "China Kashgar, Kashgar, Kashgar Administrative Office on the promotion of building Kashgar in Central Asia, South Asia, South Asia, the status of the economic center of the views of the development strategy", formally put forward to give play to the advantages of the cluster ports, the construction of the "A center, two bases" strategic concept. Therefore, both the national macro-strategic deployment, or the local government for the development of export-oriented economy in the Kashgar region to provide a strong policy to protect.