A few days ago, a car carrying 84 meters long wind turbine blades slowly drove out from Baktou port in Tacheng, Xinjiang, and drove to Kazakhstan.

　　Sany (Tacheng) Wind Power Equipment Co., Ltd. production manager Yan Tong said that the equipment will be used for Kazakhstan Dostyk wind power project, the project contains eight single 6250 kW capacity wind turbines, with a total installed capacity of 50 MW, after landing will extend the chain for Kazakhstan's wind power clean energy industry chain, complementary chain, strong chain injection of strong kinetic energy.

As a border province along China's opening up to the west, Xinjiang has 17 year-round national category 1 ports, 11 of which are open to Central Asia. Since this year, a number of ports in Xinjiang are carrying out targeted infrastructure enhancement projects to further tighten the network of open meridians to the outside world.

　　In Baktou port, the international logistics park railroad line project, Baktou to Kazakhstan Ayaguz railroad preliminary work is steadily progressing.

　　In Alashankou Port, the second line of Lanzhou-Xinjiang Railway from Jinghe to Alashankou section is smoothly promoted. After the project is completed and put into operation, the customs clearance capacity and efficiency from Alashankou to Central Asia and Europe will be greatly improved.

　　In the Irkhestan port, impede the efficiency of freight transport "Z" port road problem will be expected to be solved by way of bridge and road.

　　This year, 32-year-old Kyrgyzstan truck driver Aitem Sara has been running in the international freight lines for 8 years of transport. During these years, he really felt the great changes at the Irkshtein port.

　　"The port accommodation has become better, and there are more job opportunities." Aitem Sala said. He used to travel between China and Kyrgyzstan once a month, but now, with the increasingly close economic and trade contacts between the two countries, he travels on this route at least three times a month.

　　Not only has the frequency of travel increased and income increased, but the variety of Aitem Sala's goods has also expanded from mainly department stores at the beginning to mechanical and electrical products and cross-border e-commerce goods.

　　In recent years, Xinjiang, relying on the advantages of its location, to speed up the construction of development and opening up pilot zones, border economic cooperation zones, comprehensive bonded zones and other types of open platforms, to promote the trade industry from a single "channel economy" to "port economy" " Industrial economy" transformation.

　　At present, there are 15 bonded processing enterprises in Alashankou Comprehensive Free Trade Zone, Alashankou Jinshahe Noodle Co. The company uses Kazakhstan's imported wheat to produce the "Hamai noodles" brand hanging noodles, which are very popular in the Chinese market. Yin Feihong, head of the company, told reporters that in March this year, the company and Kazakhstan enterprises signed a 50,000-ton wheat import contract, the first batch of wheat has arrived in Alashankou comprehensive free trade zone by rail transport.

　　As of May 13, 2023 Alashankou Comprehensive Free Trade Zone bulk grain railroad line opened 18 columns, the cumulative import of grain from Central Asia 56,970 tons.

　　Returning to Kyrgyzstan from Xinjiang this time, Aitem Sara drove a Transport International Road (TIR) vehicle.

　　In May 2018, the TIR system was officially implemented in China, and the Irkhestan port became one of the first pilot ports in the country.

　　"TIR vehicles only need to go through customs procedures at the place of origin and destination, exempting them from customs inspection in transit countries." This can greatly improve the efficiency of international trade and reduce transportation costs, said Minawar Ilamu, deputy head of the customs supervision section in Irkhestan, Xinjiang.

　　Minawar Ilam said that with the continuous development of trade between China and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and other countries, Irkhestan port will play a greater role in international road freight.

　　According to Urumqi Customs statistics, in the first quarter of this year, Xinjiang's import and export trade with the five Central Asian countries reached 53.18 billion yuan, an increase of 84.5%, accounting for 78.1% of the total value of foreign trade in Xinjiang in the same period. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan are the top three trading partners in Xinjiang.