A worker at Yanjing Beer Limited Company in Shihezi economic and technical development zone, Xinjiang, September 21, 2009. [Xinhua]

White Paper on Development and Progress in Xinjiang:

Over the years, Xinjiang has made full use of its own advantages, and focused on economic restructuring and changing the modes of economic growth, infrastructure construction and environmental protection, along with improvement of people's livelihood and basic public services, so as to keep the development of Xinjiang in pace with the national development, and to ensure beneficial interaction between the development of southern Xinjiang and that of northern Xinjiang.