(ii) Natural Resources

Land Resources XPCC has a total acreage of 7.45627 million hectares, including land for agricultural use of 4.19264 million hectares, land for construction use of 0.20989 million hectares, unused land of 3.05374 million hectares. Land for agricultural use includes: farmland of 0.10465 million hectares, garden plot of 0.06358 million hectares, woodland of 0.14216 million hectares, pastures of 2.4269 million hectares, other land for agricultural use of 0.21935 million hectares.

Mineral Resources

Xinjiang has minerals of complete types and large reserves, broad development prospect. Out of the 171 known kinds of minerals in China, Xinjiang has discovered 138 kinds with verified resource reserves of 117 kinds, including 5 kinds of reserves ranking fi rst in China, 24 kinds in the first five places in China, 43 kinds in the first ten places in China, 23 kinds ranking first in the northwest. Xinjiang has rich reserves of petroleum, natural gas, coal, gold, chromium, copper, nickel, rare metals, salt minerals, bentonite, building materials and nonmetallic materials. According to forecast, Xinjiang has forecast coal stock size of 2.19 trillion billion tons, covering 40% of the total amount in China, ranking fi rst; that of oil 20.86 billion tons, covering 30% of the total land oil stock size in China, that of natural gas 10.3 trillion cubic meters, covering 34% of the total land natural gas stock size, and other famous resources since ancient times such as gold, gem and jade.

Water Resources

Xinjiang has annual surface water resources (utilization of surface water) of 8.9 billion cubic meters, exploitable ground water resources of 5.2 billion cubic meters, an effective irrigated area of 1 million hectares, and water-saving area of 53.9 hectares. By the end of 2005, XPCC had 114 reservoirs with a total storage capacity of 3.163 billion cubic meters, including 11 large-scale reservoirs with a storage capacity of 1.876 billion cubic meters, 27 mediumsized reservoirs with a storage capacity of 1.109 billion cubic meters, 76 small reservoirs with a storage capacity of 216 million cubic meters, irrigation canals with a total length of 99,400 kilometers including 26,700 kilometers under penetration protection, drainage channel with a total length of 42,600 kilometers, 102,400 channel buildings of various kinds, 10,600 electromechanical pump wells including 10,200 with support facilities and with a water furnishing ability of 299.03 cubic meters per second, a water lifting quantity of 1.45 billion cubic meters, 115 locations of 10,000-mu irrigation areas including 7 locations of 500,000-mu irrigation areas, 11 locations of 20,000-30,000-hectare irrigation areas. It has embankment with a total length of 2,107 kilometers, a population of 1.44 million under protection, farmland with an area of 0.3678 million hectares under protection. It constructed 90 sluices on the river including 3 large-scale sluices, 26 mediumsized sluices and 61 small sluices. XPCC has a total irrigated area of 1.17112 million hectares, water conservancy projects with an annual water supply of 13.06 billion cubic meters, including 11.755 billion cubic meters for agricultural water supply, 70 million cubic meters for industrial water supply, 148 million cubic meters for urban and rural domestic water and 87 million cubic meters for ecologic use.

Biological Resources

Situated at the communications center of Eurasia with combination of East and West animal and plant varieties, and diverse and unique physical geographic conditions, Xinjiang is extremely rich in biological resources.

Xinjiang has complete temperate zone crops, with wheat, corn, paddy rice as main crops. In most areas it is suitable to plant miscellaneous grains such as sorghum, barley, soybean, pea, mung bean, broad bean, millet, millet and sweet potato. The Ili River valley is always known as“ Xinjiang granary”.

“Tianshan snow” rice is as clean as pearl bead, with fine texture and fragrant taste. Economic crops include cotton, beet, rape, sunflower, hops, aspic, flax, tobacco and medicinal materials. XPCC’ upland cotton, long-staple cotton and color cotton kapok, beet, oil-bearing crops, hops and ketchup ranking first in both output and quality in China’s agricultural cultivation, cotton yield of per unit area and per capita occupancy ranking fi rst in China.

Xinjiang is known as“ home-town of fruits and melons”. The common fruits and melons include: melon (Hami melon), watermelon, apple, bergamot pear, grape, apricot, peach, plum, red jujube, pomegranate, cherry, fig, walnut and almond, vegetable crops are quite rich, including cabbage, spinach, coriander, wild cabbage, yellow radish, green radish, potato, spring onions, kidney bean, tomato, onion, red pepper, eggplant, celery, Chinese chive, cucumber, bottle gourd, balsam pear, pumpkin, sponge gourd, wax gourd. Various temperate zone fruits, vegetables and melons can be seen everywhere.

Xinjiang is one of the five big pastoral areas with many animals with sheep ranking first in quantity, followed by horse, cattle, goat, donkey, camel, mule, pig and deer, fowls including chicken, duck and goose, Ili horse, Yiwu horse, Yanqi horse, Balikun horse, Shihezi land reclamation fine-wool sheep, Altay fatrumped sheep, Xinjiang brown cattle, Kuqa black budge sheep, and ili dairy and beef cattle quite famous. XPCC meat output ranks fi rst in output in China’s agricultural cultivation.

Xinjiang has 90 kinds of fish, including quite precious Buluntuo Lake and Erqis River sturgeon, salmon, River perch, Silver prussian carp, siberian roach, Pikeperch, Gold Crucian Carp, Leuciscus idus, Burbot, European bream, and loving Buluntuo Lake and Erqis River River perch, Culter, Bositeng Lake pipefi sh, Barbless carp, Ili River Carp and Perch.

In terms of wild plants, there are edible, medicinal, technical, sandfixation and appreciation plants of 132 species, 856 families, nearly 4,000 kinds, including over 1,000 kinds of economic and medicinal plants, over 100 kinds of rare plants, such as liquorice, Fritillary Bulb, Safflower, Snow Lotus, Desertliving Cistanche, Dwarf Lilyturf Tuber , Chinese Angelica, Tangshen Root, Chinese Asafoetida, Desertliving Cistanche, gentian, Ephedra Herb, Barbary Wolfberry Fruit and medlar. Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has its licorice ranking first in terms of both area and yield in China，XPCC has a licorice area of 26,700 hectares.

Furthermore, Xinjiang has diversiformleaved poplar, narrow-leaved oleaster, wild apple, wild walnut, wild apricot, wild almond tree, wild Chinese hawthorn, shiny-leaved yellow-horn, wild rose, bluish dogbane, rubber grass, reed, splendid achnatherum and sacsaoul grass. Xinjiang’s diversiformleaved poplar area covers 95% that in China. XPCC administers a diversiform -leaved poplar area of 40,000 hectares.

Xinjiang has 580 kinds of wild animals including over 340 kinds of birds, over 130 kinds of mammals with over 80 kinds listed as rare animals under national protection. 20 kinds are of fi rst category animals under national protection, mainly including wild horse, wild yak, wild camel, Tibetan wild ass, Mongolian wild ass, Xinjiang tiger, snow leopard, Tibetan antelope, saiga, beaver, wolverine, white stork, black stork, white crane, black-necked crane, whiteshouldered vulture, spot-billed pelican, Tibetan snow cock, peregrine falcon and Horned Grebe .

Xinjiang has 67 kinds of animals under national second category protection, mainly including brown bear, sable, lynx, red deer, ibex, swan, jade belt sea vulture. In addition, there are many common wild animals such as Bositeng Lake and Tarim riverside muskrat, oasis and desert hare, Tianshan and Altay pasture marmot, Mongolian gazelle, wolf, fox, Huocheng Horsfield’s tortoise including red deer, muskrat, snow cock and mink, which are successfully tamed and reproduced in XPCC reclamation area and becoming important materials to earn foreign exchange through export.

(iii) Animal Husbandry Development

XPCC has agriculture as its economic foundation and superiority, and agricultural modernization take lead in China. With farmland of 1.05 million hectares, sown area of 0.98 million hectares, gardening production area of 140,000 hectares. XPCC is China’s most important high quality cotton production center and biggest watersaving agricultural irrigation area, with a cotton output of 0.987 million tons, covering one sixth of China’s total cotton, export covering a half of China’s total cotton export. XPCC has its Jin Brand, Yinli Brand and Beijiang Brand cotton rank the first three places among China’s top ten brands, Xinnong Brand among the top ten best sellers at China’s cotton market. XPCC has had its cotton, grape, tomato, bergamot pear, red deer, dairy products and feed form specialized production, processing and industrialized production management, processing tomato productivity reach 600,000 tons ranking second in the same trade in the world and the products sell well in more than 40 countries and regions. grape wine productivity reached 120,000 tons, with alcohol brewing grape planting area of 150,000 mu ranking first in China and Asia. Its 6 pillar industries, namely, cotton industry, grain, oil and sugar processing industry, fruits and vegetables processing industry, livestock products, alcohol industry and seed industry rapidly developed.

In 2005, XPCC had a total agricultural output value of 27.352 billion Yuan, and continued to adjust crop planting structure. It had a sown area of 985,800 hectares, including grain sown area of 228,000 hectares, cotton sown area of 471,700 hectares, oil sown area of 46,500 hectares, beet sown area of 20,500 hectares. The output of main agricultural products such as grain, cotton, beet and fruits greatly increased, with cotton output creating a historical new record.

Main Agricultural Products Output:

Animal Husbandry Center

High quality commodity cotton production center

XPCC’s various reclamation areas useable for cotton production have a typical temperate zone continental climate, long sunshine time, rich light resources, dry nature and few rainfall , centralized precipitation, which benefi ts growth of thermophilic crops such as cotton. For half a century, developing cotton through science and technology, XPCC has successively created a breakthrough of cotton planting forbidden area of latitude 44 N, and made miracles of large area high production of cotton in the Manas River basin; developed over 30 improved seeds such as Junmian 1, long-staple cotton Junhai 1, Xinluzao 1, summarized“ short, dense, drought and membrane” comprehensiveand complete high yield technology, introduced and successfully promoted miracles of mechanical cotton picking technology, had cotton output covering one sixth of China’s total cotton, export covering a half of China’ s total cotton export, with first class cotton rate of above 85%. XPCC is China’s most important high quality commodity cotton production center.

Important grain and oil production center

XPCC adopts advanced precision agriculture planting technology, vigorously develops high quality special-purpose wheat, high quality paddy rice and oil-bearing crops and enhances market competitive force. It has its products such as“ Tianshan Snow”,“Yihe Double Six” rice“, Dali”“, Saimolin”, “Chengmian”,“ Qiaoerma” Teyi flour, “Lingyangmai”,“ Jintun” and cooking oil obtaining green food authentication.

Important livestock product center

XPCC has rapidly developed its animal husbandry and made it an important part of agricultural economy, constructed high quality livestock product center with high quality dairy cattle center, beef cattle center, mutton sheep center, fi ne-wool sheep center and red deer center as main and cultivated international leading fine-wool sheep new variety-China’s Merino sheep.

Licorice production center With a total area of more than 300,000 mu, including more than 60,000 mu for man-power planting, this center has formed industrialized production with licorice slice and licorice extract as main products.

Breeding of better stocks and characteristic fruits and melons

Breeding of better stocks

XPCC has vigorously selected breeds, introduced crop varieties including more than 700 from abroad, and more than 120 self-cultivated varieties. XPCC has constructed 2 state-level better stock breeding centers, 11 high quality better stock cotton breeding centers with a seedselecting working rate of 95% or more. Improved seed selective breeding has greatly promoted XPCC agricultural economic development.

The 3 enterprises of XPCC, namely, Xinjiang Kangdi Agricultural Science & Technology Development CO. Ltd., Tianhe Seeding Co. Ltd. and Jinbo Seeding Center, have become among China’s top 50 seeding enterprises.

Characteristic fruits and melons

Xinjiang is always praised as hometown of fruits and melons. XPCC’ has its centers of high quality characteristic fruits and melons spread north and south Tianshan. XPCC Agricultural No.2 Division has had its“ Elliman” brand Korla bergamot pear win Gold Medal of the Second Agricultural Exposition, Famous Brand Product of China International Agriculture Exposition, China Green Food Kunming Exposition Best-selling Product Award, and obtain China Green Product Reasoning; No.143 Regiment of Agricultural No.8 Division has been appointed as“ hometown of flat peaches” by organizational committee of recommendation and publicity activities of China Special Product Economic Commission and China Special Product Hometown, No.83 Regiment of Agricultural No.5 Division has been appointed by Economic Forestry Society of State Forestry Administration as“ hometown of Medlar”, Agricultural No.13 Division has been appointed by Economic Forestry Society of State Forestry Administration as“ hometown of China’s famous, excellent and special economic forests”.

Agricultural Industrialization

XPCC has 29 leading agricultural industrialized enterprises including 8 state-level enterprises.

Fast-rising red industry. Chalkis Tomato Product Co., Ltd. is a state-level leading agriculture industrialized enterprise with a tomato sown area of 36,300 hectares and an annual output of 2.69 million tons. XPCC has tomato products of more than 30 varieties and an annual ketchup and its product productivity of 600,000 tons, export covering 50% of China’s total export amount, has formed an industrial chain with vat ketchup as initial product, tomato cubes, peeled entire tomato, small package tomato products as middle product, lycopene and other products with high added value as terminal. XPCC has had its products passed 7 authentications, namely, ISO9002, ISO14001 and HACCP, Judaism, European Food Organization, non-transgene variety authentication and Islamic food authentication. The products sell well in more than 70 countries and regions.

Vigorously developing brewing industry. Xinjiang is one of the high quality grape production areas in the world. Relying on the superior climatic characteristics of rich heat resources, long sunshine time, big diurnal amplitude and small precipitation north and south of Tianshan Mountains, XPCC vigorously develops grape planting and brewing center.

Suntime International Wine Co., Ltd. is a state-level leading agriculture industrialized enterprise, the largest monomer wine plant in Asia, with 6 wine plants and an annual high quality grape wine productivity of 120,000 tons, a daily filling ability of 200 tons, with its products selling well at domestic and international markets, constructed a 150,000-mu high quality winemaking grape center, the largest in Asia. Suntime series grape wine has obtained green food certificate and qualification of National Products Exempt from Inspection from National Green Food Development Center, in 2005 obtained China famous brand product certificate from General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, won multiple gold and silver medals at the second, fourth and sixth international grape wine and liquor appraisal meeting and at Asian grape wine quality contest respectively.

Xinjiang Yilite Industry Co. Ltd. is a state-level leading agriculture industrialized enterprise, mainly producing Yili Tequ Liquor, Yili Lao Jiao Liquor, Yili Brand Liquor and other products of more than 100 varieties, in 9 series. The products sell well in many foreign countries such as Australia, Commonwealth of Independent States, Japan and Republic of Korea.“ Yili” trademark has been evaluated by Administration for Industry & Commerce of People’s Republic of China as“ China famous trademark” and the company has become among China’s top ten liquor enterprises.

China’s largest“ Tiancai” color cotton production center; In 2005, it had an ordering purchase area of 70,000 mu. Forming agricultural industrialized scale, “rainbow” color cotton holds an important share at the international and domestic raw material market, and product varieties are complete.

XPCC has the center for production, processing, scientifi c research, international trade and breeding of hops, melons and vegetables of improved varieties, which has become the largest fragrant hops export center in China. The center enterprise has established hops planting, melon and vegetable breeding centers in 12 farming and animal husbandry regiments, 21 organs in south and north Xinjiang through methods such as order entrust production, land tenancy production and buying shares with land, with a hops planting area of 20,000 mu and an annual average hops processing capacity of 3,000 tons. Hops sell to Japan, Germany and other countries, melon and vegetable improved varieties sell to US, Holland, Japan, Republic of Korea, Chile and other countries.

XPCC dairy industry has formed an industrial structure of farmer plus center plus market, Yinqiao International (Kuytun, Xinjiang) Dairy Co., Ltd. has its first period construction scale as 300 t/d fresh milk processing, mainly produces full cream evaporated milk powder, full cream sweetened milk powder and formula milk powder.

(iv) Industrial Development

Having its industry take agricultural and subsidiary product processing as main body, energy and basic industry as matching, XPCC has constructed a resource-based industry structure system with textile, food, papermaking, leather, steel, electric power, coal, building materials, chemicals, machinebuilding and electronics as backbone, adapting to practical situation of Xinjiang and XPCC. In 2005, XPCC had an industrial added value of 5.65 billion Yuan, a gross value of industrial output of 17.564 billion Yuan including light industrial output value of 9.293 billion Yuan, heavy industry output value of 8.271 billion Yuan, realized an industrial sales output value of 16.89 billion Yuan, industrial product sales rate of 96.2%.

Chemical industry

XPCC enterprises fully used their rich mineral resources in Xinjiang such as coal, salt and limestone according to circular economic type constructed a new type industrial garden with an annual production of 360,000 tons of polyvinyl chlorides, 280,000 tons of caustic soda, 200,000-kilowatt matching self-supply power plant, 300,000 tons of calcium carbide, 300,000 tons of cement, and formed an interior organic circulation within the group from mineral resources to chemical products, from chemical products to watersaving equipment, from water-saving equipment to highly effective ecological agriculture.

XPCC has had its agricultural watersaving equipment production reach an annual capacity of 6 million mu, with its technical level, scale of production and market taking lead in the world.

Textile industry

XPCC has 0.95 million cotton textile spindles (ring spindle) with its products exported to various places in the world.

Electric power industry

In 2005, XPCC had an electric-power output of 3.609 billion kWh. Its Xinjiang Tianfu Thermoelectric Co., Ltd. is the first listed company of combined thermal power generation in the Northwest, with a total installed capacity of 263.55 megawatts, an annual electric-power output of 1.7 billion kWh, electricity supply capacity of 1.7 billion kWh, heat supply capacity of 10 million GJ, 31 110-kilovolt and 35-kilovolt transformer substations, 480-kilometer 110 kilovolt transmission lines, 440-kilometer 35 kilovolt transmission lines, a power supply radius of 150 kilometers, a heating radius of 8 kilometers, a heating area of 7 million square meters.

Architectural industry

In 2005, XPCC had an added value of architectural industry of 2.685 billion Yuan, a total output value of construction enterprise architecture industry of 9.858 billion yuan, a staff technical equipment rate of 5,928 yuan/person, a labor productivity of 89,748 yuan/person, a power equipment rate of 3.99 kilowatts/person.