Xinjiang-China Permanent Virtual Exhibition and Business Directory

Xinjiang is known for its fruits and produce, including grapes, melons, pears, cotton, wheat, silk, walnuts and sheep. Xinjiang also has large deposits of minerals and oil. The oil and gas extraction industry in Aksu and Karamay is booming, with the West–East Gas Pipeline connecting to Shanghai.

The oil and petrochemical sector account for 60% of Xinjiang's local economy.Xinjiang's nominal GDP was 427.4 billion RMB (62.6 billion USD) in 2009, due to theChina Western Development policy introduced by the State Council to boost economic development in Western China. Its per capita GDP for 2009 was 19,798 RMB (2,898 USD).

Southern Xinjiang, with 95 per cent non-Han population has an average per capita income half that of Xinjiang as a whole.Xinjiang's exports amounted to 19.3 billion USD, while imports turned out to be 2.9 billion USD in 2008. Most of the overall import/export volume in Xinjiang was directed to and from Kazakhstan through Ala Pass.

China's first border free trade zone (Horgos Free Trade Zone) was located at the Xinjiang-Kazakhstan border city of Horgos. Horgos is the largest "land port" in China's western region and it has easy access to the Central Asian market. Xinjiang also opened its second border trade market to Kazakhstan the Jeminay Border Trade Zone.