XINJIANG DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ITS BORDER AREAS
Abstract
In 1949, the Communist Party of China formulated and launched a strategy of political, economic, and social changes for the Xinjiang Autonomous Region. Throughout the 1950s-1970s, its traditional social structure underwent certain changes to adjust to the planned socialist economy. In the 1980s-1990s, when China moved away from a planned to a market economy, the social and economic situation in the region improved considerably.
In the first decades of the 21st century, Xinjiang acquired a new lease on life through the Great Western Development Strategy carried out by the CPC. This strategy embraced 19 cities and provinces across the country and radically changed the situation in Xinjiang for the better, partly owing to financial, technical, and human assistance extended by developed cities and provinces on a permanent basis. These concerted efforts improved the region’s social and economic context. Today, infrastructure, communication, and transportation systems are developing on a high-tech basis.
The social and economic situation in the region’s border areas, especially those bordering Kazakhstan, has been considerably improved. Trade and economic ties are developing with Central Asian countries, Russia, and the West. The development of cities in the border regions (e.g., Khorgos) and the creation of free trade hubs play an important role in China’s trade and economic communications and the safety of its borders.
Kazakhstan can learn a lot from China’s experience of realizing its strategy of intensified development of Xinjiang’s border area and apply it to its own border regions.
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