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XINJIANG UYGUR AUT. REG. - Urumqi is the Capital of Xijiang Uygur Autonomous Region, it is located at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountain and the southern rim of Junggar Basin, with an elevation between 680 and 920 meters. It covers a total area of 12,000 square kilometers including 82 square kilometers of urban area with a total population of 1.48 million. The city's rural population accounts for only 13% of the total.

Natural resources and Economic development
Urumqi has rich natural resources, the coal reserve over 10 billion tons., and also rich oil reserves, the East Junggar Oil Field in the north, Kramay Oil Field in the west, the Turpan-Hami Oil Field in the east, and the Tarim Oil Field in the city south. The city has many cultural sights to tourists attract places. The city has arable land 540,000 hectares and pastureland 600,000 hectares, and plus more than 300 varieties of wild plants and a water surface totaling 3,600 hectares for the development.

Industries and Investment Environmental
Urumqi is a newly industrial city, its industrial system comprised mainly of petroleum processing, metallurgy, chemical industry, textiles, machinery, electronics, building materials, paper-making, canned- food, and so on. A total of more than 350 enterprises have been set up in the Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone. And a total of 510 enterprises have been set up in the Urumqi New and High - Tech Development Zone. Besides, the city has so far also approved over 400 foreign funded enterprises, all now operated in the Urumqi City.

Other cities economic development in Xinjiang: Shihezi city Economic and Technological Development Zone has an area of 16 square kilometers, the newly completed Xinjiang Airport is located 3 kilometers away to the northeast of the development zone. By now, has more than 250 enterprises has been set up in the development zone gone into operation. Changji City is rich the mineral resources including gold, silver, coal, iron and copper. In additional, the city has abundant forest resources and wild animal and agriculture productions, hops and seed melons of Changzi were in great demand both from home and abroad, particularly its seed melons. Changzi was awarded 'Cup of Golden Melon' prize, the city created a miracle in agriculture by its bumper harvest and rapid development in successive years.