XJ turned into the largest foreign trade area in central and west China in 2008. Last year, XJ's import and export trade volume reached 22.217 bln USD, and in this year, the volume is expected to reach 27.8 bln USD, a rise of 25%.

While keeping its traditional markets including Kazakhstan, XJ will further expand the neighboring markets of other countries in central Asia and Russia, and explore new markets in south Asia, Middle East and Eastern Europe. Besides, XJ will seize the opportunity of price drop for primary products in the international markets, increase the import for bulk commodities such as crude oil, natural gas and non-ferrous metal, and seek for new growth point of import.