China’s State Council has approved a national territorial spatial plan for the Uyghur autonomous region of Xinjiang for the period 2021-2035.
It is expected that by 2035, the total area of cultivated land in Xinjiang should be at least 101.21 million mu. Of this territory, the protection area for permanent basic agricultural land will be at least 82.2383 million mu, and the red line area for ecological protection should not be less than 423,300 square kilometers.
To support new development patterns, emphasis was placed on implementing strategies in coordinated regional development, functional zones, new urbanization, rural revitalization and other major regional plans.
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While advancing the construction of the core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, Xinjiang’s regional opening-up strategy should be integrated into the overall design of the country’s westward opening, and the construction of important canals to the west will be accelerated. world to take advantage of both international markets and domestic resources.
The agricultural and livestock industrial bands on the northern and southern slopes of the Tianshan Mountains should stabilize. Efforts will also be made to strengthen the restoration of degraded croplands and saline-alkaline lands, and to consolidate ecological security barriers such as the Altai Mountains, Tianshan Mountains, Kunlun Mountains-Altun Mountains and Tarim River.
On the other hand, we will seek to strengthen the driving role of the Urumqi metropolitan area, and provide support to build Kashgar and Yining into regional central cities.
In terms of transportation, work will be carried out to improve the northern, central and southern passages, and the comprehensive north-south traffic network in Xinjiang.
Meanwhile, large-scale domestic oil and gas production, processing and reserve bases will be built; coal, coal-electricity and coal-chemical bases; wind and solar energy bases, and national energy and mineral resource land corridors, to ensure the security of strategic mineral resources.
The protection of world cultural and natural heritage and red cultural heritage sites is also highlighted.
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