Introduction to Category-B Open Ports in Xinjiang

Urumqi Nian Zigou Passengers?? Transportation Station:
The station is located in the yard of Xinjiang passengers transporting company on Hei Longjiang Road, Urumqi, bordering on Changzhen small articles wholesale market in the east and connecting with railway station and trade and commercial center in the south. In May 1994, it was ratified to become Nian Zigou Category-B port. At present, The Nian Zigou Category-B Port is equipped with warehouses with 2894 square meters under customs monitor, numbering 40 depots altogether with parking area of 13,160 square meters. It is a collecting and distributing place of less than carload combined transportation, equipped with international booking office, international luggage consignment and special place for examination and inspection. In 1999, the category-B export amounted to 70,364 tons and import about 40 tons, round runs of passengers coach dispatched from the both sides came to 732, carrying passengers 7300 men/times and runs of lorries 2960.

Frontier Hotel
The Frontier Category-B Port was established upon ratification of Xinjiang People??s Government. The frontier hotel market mainly deals in garment, house appliance, food and light industrial products. The port now possesses 800 shop fronts for external trade, three warehouse areas under monitor of custom house, covering 40,000 square meters, 200 new-built warehouses under the monitor of customs with the aid of close-circuit TV monitor system, making 24-hour monitor. The port provides tour purchase with market department, service warehouse department and public security, shaping a service mechanism integrating purchase, lodging and boarding, warehouse, applying to customs and loading for shipment. In 1999, the direct lorries and indirect lorries dispatched from the port numbered 8000 lorry/times, cargos about 160,000 with value of 30 hundred million USD. The port has become a bigger tour-purchase market in Urumqi.

Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone
The zone was established in 1997 upon ratification of Xinjiang People??s Government and officially opened on August 30th, 1998. The zone, located in the economic and technological development zone, is 3 kilometers from northwest international train marshalling yard for Euro-Asian continental bridge (Urumqi west station) and close to Urumqi International Airport. At present, the port has 50 warehouses under the monitor of customs, parking lot with 10,000 square meters. The monitor administrative zone is installed with monitoring system under overall monitor. Checking organs implement a unified office with specific staff for fixed posts and a central dispatching station is found under Urumqi internal transportation center. For the sake of Chinese and foreign traders?? tour and purchase, 4 large international trade and tour-purchase markets have been set up, with business floor space of 50,000 square meters. Since the opening of the port, 6282 tons cargos have been cleared through customs with commodity value of 15.33 million USD.

Town of Trade and Commerce
The port of Urumqi Trade and Commercial Town is based on Xinjiang Trade and Commercial Town, which was open in 1988 upon ratification of Xinjiang people??s government. The port area has 2000 square meters of warehouse under monitor of customs. In 1999, over 600 lorries were dispatched to the marginal countries and 16,000 tons of freight shipped out, with commodity value of over 100 million RMBY. Xinjiang Trade and Commercial Town is a bigger comprehensive wholesales market, where most of commodities are low-price daily necessities, with certain dimension and business variety, being well received by traders at home and abroad.

Hualing Market
The market was officially open on November 26th, 1998. Located in the heartland of Urumqi City, it connects with Xihong Road in the south and links up with Hetan express highway in the west. The port covers a land area of 6389 square meters, warehouse area of 2000 square meters and full set of facilities inside warehouse area. At present, the commodities exported to C.I.S, Afghanistan, Pakistan and others came to 5000 or more tons, with commodity value of 1.2 hundred million USD. The Hualing Market as a mainstay of the category-B port covers land of 350mu and projected area of 600,000 square meters. It is a large comprehensive market integrating trade and commerce, warehouse, fair, entertainment, Ads service and information function and also the biggest building decorative material market in the northwest where domestic operators and building material as well as decorative material manufacturers put up their outlets, with the varieties coming up to as many as 10,000. The market is matched with industry and commerce, tax, post service, telecommunication and bank to facilitate Chinese and foreign traders in their tour-purchase.

Changji Central Asia Trade and Commercial Town
The comprehensive wholesale market of the town was instituted in the year 2000 upon the ratification of Xinjiang people??s government. The port is located inside the comprehensive whole- sale market inside Changji city, which is close to No. 312 national highway, 38 kilometers from Urumqi in the east. The market covers a land area of 429mu, floor space of 200,000 square meters with projected front-shops of 10,000. The port has its own an office building of unifying inspection units, warehouses under the monitor of customs and total building space of 21000 square meters.

Kashui Central Asia International Trade Market Port
The port was instituted in the year 2000 upon ratification of Xinjiang people??s government.

Yili Bayinday Port
The port was ratified a national category-B port based on Yili prefecture passengers?? transporting center upon ratification of Xinjiang people??s government in the year 1993. In May of the same year, Yining customs stationed to the port, followed by a batch of unified inspection units. In April 1994, Xinjiang port office ratified the port to deal in cargos warehouse and transporting business. In order to better the coordination of the port management and create favorable customs clearing environment, the port administrative board was set up in 1998 after the approval of Xinjiang port office. After years?? development, it has owned warehouses with a total floor space of 2271 square meters equipped with detecting and inspecting instrument. Up to now, 1.91 million tons of cargos have been exported, with a value of 4.8 hundred million USD 310,000 men times have been completed, with transporting turnover of 332,340 kilometers. Its development greatly has promoted and stimulated the development in external transporting business in Yili prefecture.

Yining Port
As a category-B port ratified by Xinjiang people??s government, it is located inside the frontier economic cooperative zone in the western suburb of Yining city, being 3 kilometers from the downtown area, with beautiful surrounding and easier access to transportation. The port, which was open in 1993, mainly deals in tour purchase. According to the statistics, the exit vehicles have amounted to 12,030 times and exports exceeded 213,000 tons with a value of 22.38 hundred million RMBY since it opened. After years?? development, Yining port has gradually stepped onto a track of standardization and system. The port trade has gone ahead and the infrastructure facilities become sound. It has 3 external transporting yard and one monitoring yard for foreign?Cowned vehicles, covering a land area of 48000 square meters. Closed-type warehouses under the monitor own a floor space of 13,000 square meters, 100 external ?Cservice vehicles, leading to Alma Ata, Qimkent and Qiongza counties in Kazakhstan. The port is equipped with customs inspection and quarantine for imports and exports, external transporting management and port administration.

Tacheng Long-distance Bus Station
The port was set up by joint-fund from Shanghai Haicheng Material United Operation Co. together with some others in May 1996. It became a spot of frontier people??s reciprocal trade after the ratification of Xinjiang people??s government on October 3rd, 1996. The frontier trade and commercial town was ratified warehouses under the monitor of customs by Tacheng customs house in July 1997. The open Tacheng passengers?? transporting station as a category-B port moved to the frontier trade and commercial town in 1994 followed by port administrative board and relevant inspecting units. The town, as the first stage of works for the trade corridor of Tacheng economic cooperative zone, covers a land area of 72mu, warehouses under the customs 46, with floor space of 2650 square meters, loading space of 17,000 square meters, warehouse 1500 square meters, underground temperature warehouse 2800 square meters, front shops 44 with a space of 1000 square meters, parking lot of 9000 square meters. Its main building owns a floor space of 8880 square meters, 60 guest rooms and many-items of service places.

Kuitun Railway Station
The station port was set up upon ratification in 1994.