"Beautiful Looking" Xinjiang Textile Clothing Trade Lacks Leading Industries.

The sun on the top of the earth roasted everything on the ground. The dark skinned old man squatted in front of the warehouse and smoked in the shade.

"It has been closed, and in the afternoon, the customs staff will come and take a sample."

Lao Wang rose and walked in the middle of the 7 storage warehouses which he had leased. He was counting a bundle of goods that were waiting for sampling and loading.

Lao Wang's freight forwarder has been in Urumqi western region light industry base for more than 10 years.

The western region light industrial base is the two type of entry and exit port of the country, and the largest distributing center for the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region's border trade.

"These goods, including textiles, clothing and daily necessities, are basically goods in the coastal areas."

Lao Wang said, "in

Lack of industry dependence

The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is located in the northwest border area of China and the hinterland of the Eurasian continent, covering an area of 1 million 664 thousand and 900 square kilometers, which accounts for 1/6 of our country's land area. The land boundary line stretches 5600 kilometers, and its periphery is bordered by 8 countries. It is an important channel for the ancient Silk Road.

Due to its special geographical position, Xinjiang's border trade imports and exports occupy half of the proportion of Xinjiang's foreign trade, from 94 million 360 thousand US dollars in 1991 to 17 billion 642 million US dollars in 2008, accounting for 79.4% of the total import and export volume of the region, accounting for 57.1% of the total import and export volume of China's border trade.

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However, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which is rich in land and resources, is rich in its own industries.

Most of the foreign trade enterprises in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and BINGTUAN mainly take the agent's export of inland products and agent's customs declaration and tax refund business as the main way of operation. They only get a small amount of agency fees and tax rebates, though the export volume is very high, but the business efficiency is poor.

Because of fierce competition, they often lose money when they write off foreign exchange.

"Strong border trade leading enterprises are less, local product exports are relatively low, and the added value is also low.

Take the Construction Corps as an example, the self produced products of the BINGTUAN border trade are mainly agricultural products and resource-based and high energy consuming industrial primary products.

A local official said, "it is difficult for Xinjiang to attract foreign capital."

In Xinjiang, the distance between the city and the city is more than 500 kilometers, and the distance between the cities and counties under the jurisdiction is at least more than 100 kilometers.

"Time is spent on the road."

Lao Wang said.

The long traffic line has increased the pportation cost of enterprises.

Due to the tight traffic, Kazakhstan has poor capacity to relocate, which restricts the pportation of export commodities from border trade. Because of the fact that the surrounding countries do not allow our vehicles to load and return goods, they can only return empty cars and increase the pportation costs. At the same time, the pportation cost is unforeseeable and the international pport plan is often unable to meet, which not only restricts some exports, but also makes many import businesses difficult to operate or take greater risks.