Xinjiang is vast in territory; the area is up to 1,600,000 sq. km., takes 1/6 of the national area. There are 14 pieces of ground, state, city now in Xinjiang, 85 counties (city), 33 among them are the frontier county (city). The formation of production and construction of Xinjiang is an important component of Xinjiang; there is field of 174 groups. By the end of 2002, the population in Xinjiang is 1905. 190,000 people. Urban population 644 among them. 720,000 people, the rural population 1260. 470,000 people, turn rate into 33 in the cities and towns. 8%, it is relatively low. Capital Urumchi people is 2,080,000, other main urban population are mostly about 300,000 people. Xinjiang GDP total amount was 1598 in 2002. 2,800 million yuan, it is 8365 yuan to be per capita. Urumqi GDP was 314 in 2001. 8,600 million, it is 16493 to be per capita, economic development level and consuming capacity want person who higher than other cities besides Kelamayi in the state obviously.
Distance, Xinjiang of main city in 500 above, Keshen, and field, Accra, etc. up to 1000 to 2000 from highway mileage of Urumqi, equivalent to the distance between Beijing and Guangzhou. Car market (including off-road car) of Xinjiang annual sales volume 40,000, Urumqi among them accounts for 50%. The present automobile recoverable amount in Urumqi 170,000, the car increased by 1 newly in 2003. 870,000, increase by 0 newly in January - June of 2004. 590,000 drop by 5% compared with the same period of last year. Because the economic level is relatively high in Urumqi, the overall level of automobile consumption is relatively high, medium-to-high grade market share of car want person who higher than state obviously, and off-road car, economy car and minicar occupy high market share very in market, state of ground, the development degree of the car market of Urumqi should be higher than the market of ground state. Because of the drive of the oil exploitation industry, the car markets of Kuerle, Kelamayi should be better than several other ground states in the ground state.
Provincial capital automobile market that Urumqi form basically already have " have a match rich special automobile city " at present, " friendly automobile city of south lake ", " wide electromechanical automobile market of gathering together etc. " , " Jiade automobile market " , " electromechanical market in being inferior " five tangible automobile market and Beijing north road , Central Asia main road two automobile street.4S shop develops rapidly in automobile market and automobile street, Shanghai Volkswagen (four families), Volkswagen of the First Automobile Factory of China (three families), in common use in Shanghai (one ) , Guangzhou Honda (two ) , east wind Nissan (two ) , east wind Citroen (three ) , east wind Peugeot (first ) , Beijing . The purchase volume of the civil automobile of Xinjiang has increased averagly at the speed of 8% to 10% for every year during 10 years; Capital Urumqi is up to 12% especially. According to the digital display of traffic police's department: The private car recoverable amount in Urumqi has increased continuously for several months in succession, from 4 of the end of last year. 60,000 increase to 5. 240,000. More than 6400 for more than growth for half a year, increase monthlily by nearly one thousand. Calculated according to the urban survey team of statistics bureau of Xinjiang, last year, citizens in Urumqi reached 102324 by the automobile. Among them, the owning amount of private car has reached 34872; there is one in every 18 on average. Up to now, the civil automobile recoverable amount in Xinjiang has already been up to 500,000. In recent years, the national economy growth momentum of Xinjiang is swift and violent, infrastructure construction and dynamics of investment are strengthened , have promoted the development of communications and transportation of Xinjiang 。The total mileage of the highway of Xinjiang has already been up to 82000 kilometers at present, 99. 5% of the villages and towns and 99. 1% more than administrative village open to the traffic, network of highways grade raise constantly, vehicle traffic capacity receives greater improvement. Meanwhile, Xinjiang masses of all nationalities living standard improve day by day and a series of preferential policies of personal car purchase, which the country successively issued, have aroused the enthusiasm that consumers purchased the car greatly.
