Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe District)

The Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone was set up in August 1994 with approval of the State Council, becoming the first state-level development zone in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The zone combined with the Toutunhe District, an administrative district of Urumqi, in January 2011 to incorporate the state-level development zone, administrative district, comprehensive bonded zone and several functional industrial parks into one. It is a unique economic zone in Xinjiang that has multiple functions and mixed development modes.

The Urumqi Economic and Technological Development Zone (Toutunhe District) has a planned area of 489.8 square kilometers and supervises 13 sub-districts with a population of 320,000. More than 9,000 companies have registered in the development zone, of which 43 have achieved more than 100 million yuan ($14.80 million) each in annual industrial output, 87 have paid taxes of more than 10 million yuan per year and 47 are foreign funded.