Established in 1954 and distributed within Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (hereinafter referred to as “the Corps”), as a part of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, undertakes the responsibility granted by the country to open up wasteland and garrison the frontiers, and in the form of integrating the Party, government, army and enterprises, autonomously governs its internal administrative and juridical affairs within its managed areas pursuant to laws and regulations in China and Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It is a special social organization specially designated in the state plan.

Following the principle of “not competing for benefits with the local people,” the Corps has built up ecologically sound economic areas of oases, with contiguous fertile fields, crisscrossing canals, ubiquitous forest belts and radiating roads.Meanwhile, it gradually formed a multi-sector industrial system with light and textile industries as the main part and supplemented by iron and steel, coal, building materials, electricity, chemicals and machinery industries. With these projects in full swing, the Corps saw its education, science and technology, culture, health and other undertakings followed suit. Since its founding, the Corps has made a great and indelible contribution to creating favorable ecological environment for the economic and social development of Xinjiang and for the local people to live and work in peace and contentment.