| Hami is the eastern gate of Xinjiang, the prefecture covers an area of 153,000 square kilometers, makes up 9 percent of the total area of Xinjiang. Under the jurisdiction of it, there are Hami City, Barkol Kazak Autonomous County and Yiwu County. The seasonal opening port of the first category of State-Laoyemiao Port was set up here, it is one of the important opening ports to develop frontier trade between Xinjiang and Mongolia. 21 units and enterprises under the Party Central Committee and Xinj iang Autonomous Region Committee are stationed here,including Tuha Petroleum Exploration & Exploitation Headquarters, No. 13 Division of Xinjiang Production & Construction Corps, Hami Coal Industry Group, Urumqi Railway Bureau Hami office and Yamansu Iron Mine of Xinjiang Steel Group, etc. The Prefecture has a population of 540,000,has 28 nationalities, of which Uygur,as the dominant nationality, and other minority nationalities make up 32 percent,and urban population makes up 51.4 percent. Hami has crisscross traffic transport network and developed communications. The roads and ighways in the prefecture, which take 312 national highways as trunk, are extended in all directions, Lan-Xin double-track railways traverse here, and the second Eurasian Continental Bridge striding Hami connected Hami with counties of CIS, Europe,and Western Asia, so as to establish trade relations with them. The Hami airport is to be reopened sooner or later The Eurasian optic fibre cables transverse Hami and the communication system that takes multimediainformation technology as dominance are completing day by day. Now Hami is going on to be a multi-faced and stereo modern traffic information hinge city, which combined road,railway, aviation and information in a whole. |
