The first ten days of July of this year, during the summit of Shanghai Co-operation Organization, China has signed the protocol of the centre about establishing the cooperation in Sino-Kazakhstan international border of Huorguosi with Kazakhstan. Collect foreign trade meaning one in this, the goods show that will plow and put with the regional commercial center of Central Asia with as a organic whole function , such as sale , storage transporting , regional international trade talk , financial service ,etc. into operation in Iraq.

    Ma XiuHong , vice-minister of national Department of Commerce , claims , the signature of this protocol , is participating in the area and coorperating and provide wider space on a large scale even more for Xinjiang, Xinjiang will play a more positive role too in accepting the things to link , promote the economic cooperation of Central Asia.

    After the protocol is signed, the 28 world 500 top enterprises assemble Capital Urumchi , probe into and open up the matters of market of Central Asia and West Asia with Xinjiang together.

    Go through the trials and hardship, see rainbows after all . In Xinjiang of the national pocket bottom opening to the outside world in the past , stepped into the front opening to the outside world of our country at last today, opening to the outside world is improving.

    Open the gate and meet the needs of the world 

    Opening history, once there was a brilliant page in the opening to the outside world of Xinjiang. Recall the Han and Tang dynasties in those years, door on Xinjiang once China and world commerce,it divide into the north of Silk Road midsection, in, pass through today Xinjiang three No. not south, " it is without cease to pay tribute, travelling businessmen are in succession, the moustache retailer guest on the ancient silk one, Japan goes straight and fills in ".

    However, before long, because such factors as the sea routes are opened , Chinese and Western trade sustain more than 10 centuries Silk Road declined gradually by land.

    Xinjiang had liberated peacefully the late arrival during 1962 in 1949, Xinjiang is it deal in to Su trade  ¬ all imported and exported goods through port  ¬ essence their to adjust surplus and deficiency in the form of inter-governmental trade of account keeping to launch, exchange each other's needs , not charge the barter trade of the spot exchange . Operate jointly civil aviation , petroleum , coloured 3 joint-venture business company also while being Sino-Soviet during that time.

    Thereafter, because the Sino-Soviet relation changes, closes the port of Jiangsu, the foreign trade direction in Xinjiang changes into and adjusts and allocates the mouth to the coastal port thereupon , the volume of trade is extremely small. According to the statistics made by the departments concerned, the foreign trade of my district was only 700,000 dollars in 1968.

    History entered the eighties of the 20th century, the open wind knocked and hit the door of Xinjiang once again . First the system reform of foreign trade, the country gives the province first class foreign trade self-operation export and import right; And then it is the State Council that is it reopen Huorguosi wait for port , is it cut off a long one for less than one year to original Russian trade to resume to sanction. The prosperous scene appears from this in the opening to the outside world of Xinjiang: From Huorguosi to ALa Mountain pass, draws it to master's temple just from red it, the merchant of different nationality , different language shuttles back and forth during that time , the border trade is in full swing. Meanwhile , the brilliance that " registered an enterprise each day " has appeared too in utilizing the foreign capitals.

    The adjustment period after 1992, the energy of the foreign trade of Xinjiang with new savings. In 2000, as the implementation of the national strategy to develop western regions and our country joined WTO, Xinjiang opening to the outside world and foreign trade has really entered high-speed developing period.

    In 23 years since reform and opening-up, Xinjiang adds up to 30,600 million dollars of import-export volume, is 48 times of the total in the past 26 years. Up till now, my district has already opened 17 class I ports, has formed the highway, railway port and crossed basically, along port complementary in, hinterland, aviation , land pattern of opening up comprehensively that port develops simultaneously.

    Open mind wide to embrace and develop 

    In initial stage for reform and opening-up, an S.Korean entrepreneur coming to my district to make the investment and founding the factory found one functional department, tell the predicament that enterprises face and hope to get help. Staff members ask him stupefiedly: Since so difficult, why make the investment and found the factory here? A face of S.Korean entrepreneur is stunned!

    Self-evident, this is a portrayal that ideas of people lagged behind at that time. Located in Xinjiang of the hinterland of continent of Asia, closes the country to international intercourse long-termly, " basin consciousness " is very strong. The gateway of a country is wide open, people are originally very excited, while really coexisting with investors, narrow thoughts , such as " the rich water does not flow in stranger's field " ,etc. come to light again. Opening is not merely economic opening , opening of the door as for Xinjiang, need opening on the thought even more.

    After going through each setback, receiving each lesson, the people in Xinjiang recall past pains, begin to examine oneself closely again. Combining reform and opening-up to practise, a free discussion taking " emancipating the mind , changing the idea " as theme sweeps across north and south of Tian Mountain. In order to improve the investment climate, the autonomous region issued " encouraging the foreign businessman to invest in several policies and regulations " in 2000, issued " the policies and regulations of improving the soft environment of investment " shortly afterwards. Meanwhile, the regional state city combines reality, put out a series of policies of absorbing the foreign capitals. The functional departments at all levels of my district change the style of work , is putting out the action constantly , serve enterprises voluntarily, make the investment environment improve constantly.

    Open mind wide, welcome and develop. By the end of June of 2005, my district will sanction setting up 1396 foreign-investment enterprises totally, utilize 5 foreign capitals actually. 56,300 million dollars, respect to the agricultural development , energy , raw materials production , infrastructure construction ,etc. by the initial manufacturing industry , service trade progressively of investment field of foreign businessman is expanded . A batch of famous trans-corporations , such as France's national happy good fortune , S.Korean SK , Japan's water accumulation , Nissan Motor , U.S.A. SDM , Denmark's good person's uncle ,etc. settle in Xinjiang.

    All the competitors strive to be the best to unlock the thinking 

    Doing to Mr. Wang that Russian is translated in more than ten years has sudden caprice for one day: Understand the market by oneself, there is a customer, why not register and do a foreign trade company ? In the last ten days of August of this year, he spent two days doing all formalities well, did the imports and exports business.

    It was difficult to imagine in the past that individual ran the foreign trade company. Once having a very long time, the eight major foreign trade Company of Xinjiang was the employment destination where a lot of people went after like a flock of ducks, whose child enters the foreign trade of Xinjiang, mean holding the gold rice bowl. At that time, only these companies had power to engage in import and export trade in Xinjiang.

    Reform and opening-up has broken the already existing pattern. The system of Xinjiang Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation has been gone through from import and export on one's own account after register and make the reform which replace the examination and approval system, the foreign trade management is totally unlocked, has formed the gratifying scenes of participating in foreign trade of many kinds of economic sectors , such as state-run , collective , private , three kinds of foreign-invested enterprises ,etc. progressively . The trade way is by the initial inter-governmental trade of account keeping too, honour that many kinds of trade way of developing into trade of spot exchange , barter trade , small trade of border , compensation trade , travel and doing shopping in mutually city of trade , inhabitant of a border area etc. coexists altogether. With the change of the operating mechanism of the foreign trade, the foreign trade market expands year by year. In recent years, Xinjiang is while consolidating the markets , such as Hong Kong , Korea S. , Japan and Southeast Asia etc, having opened up Central Asia , west Asia , Russia and market of eastern Europe especially, the countries and regions where there is trade contacts with Xinjiang grow from 98 in 2000 to 135 in 2004. The scale of foreign trade is after topped high point of 1 billion dollars in 1994, a step in one year, be up to 56 in 2004. 3,600 million dollars. The structure of the imported and exported goods has been optimized too, and then has promoted the adjustment of the industrial structure of my district. At present, the tomato products in Xinjiang rank the Asian position of second in the first world.

    Hold " dark to can arrange with " of 14 let common people find out about Xinjiang in succession already, let Xinjiang go to the world.

    " will arrange with darklying " not only attract large quantities of enterprises to come to Xinjiang to develop, but also impel a number of enterprises of Xinjiang to go abroad, participate in the international competition. Enterprises of my district have already accused of purchasing several pieces of ferrous metal in Central Asia and nonferrous metals ore partly at present; Foreign projects contracting, after entering the technological service and construction work market of oil field of Central Asia , Africa, have opened up the electric project newly.

    Bring the great development big and open. According to the introduction , parade and arrange while already entering the whole country in foreign trade of Xinjiang. Import-export volume will occupy the 17th of the whole country in 2004, will rank the second in the west and five provinces of the Northwest the first place. Autonomous region GDP depends on degree the foreign trade by 13 in 2000. 7% 21 rising to 2004s. The total export was 7 in proportion of to Xinjiang GDP 2000 among 2%  ¬. 3%, it will be 13 in 2004. 45% . Economy depends on degree and ranks the 11th of the whole country to the imports and exports of foreign trade, arrange the first place of central and west regions.

    Launch the prospect and let the hope fly away 

    Today, the international economy is becoming more integrated, how does Xinjiang expand opening to the outside world further? Wang Lequan , committee member of Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and secretary of autonomous region points out in the recent speech, want under the guidance of scientific development view , through implement way on " the east unite the west enter , the west go east come " open westwards, utilize two markets , two kinds of resources effectively, give play to the comparative advantage , start the newcoming advantage, promote the steadily , fast , sustainable development of the economy of Xinjiang.

    This is that Xinjiang expands the advantage opening to the outside world and prospect . The situation which the country opens westwards, the development of the national economy in the autonomous region, require us to do a good job of opening westwards with all strength.

    The chief of Economic and Trade Department outside the autonomous region money has confidence in realizing the goal that open westwards bravely. He thinks , from now on, Xinjiang should open resources and capital market further, attract and accept domestic and international capital , industry , technology , management and talent, develop the characteristic pillar industry, quicken the development of new-type industrialized process and regional economy ; Catch the regional cooperation of Shanghai Co-operation Organization and strengthen the opportunity brought constantly, it is convenient to fully utilize the geographical reason in Xinjiang , build one batch and face Central Asia , west Asia , South Asia , Russia and export product processing district of European Union market; Meanwhile , should utilize the resource and market of the surrounding countries actively , build a batch of energy , mineral products and import the processing base, pass in and out and circulate interdynamically , internal and external , make Xinjiang become the west of our country and build the base , outside and open up the most convenient land route passway of the market inside, become the qualified international commerce trading center of west.

    Turn one's head over, how many is Xinjiang benefited from China opening to the outside world; Looking forward to the future, Xinjiang will obtain more energy from extending and open.