Xinjiang’s economy outshines epidemic in 2020 amid continued stability

[xizhimen]

Xinjiang’s economy outshines epidemic in 2020 amid continued stability​

in World Economy News
03/02/2021

Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has registered better-than-expected economic growth in 2020 despite the impact of COVID-19. With continued stability over the years, local people’s sense of contentment and happiness has been consolidated and rural residents are among the biggest beneficiaries.

Xinjiang’s economy expanded 3.4 percent year on year in 2020, 1.1 percentage points higher than the national GDP growth, according to the local government work report delivered to the annual session of the regional legislature, which opened Monday.

The economic expansion has coincided with a period of improved, sustained stability in the region.

Xinjiang has “completely reversed the past situation marked by frequent violent terrorist activities, with no occurrence of terrorist incidents across the region over the past more than four years,” said Shohrat Zakir, chairman of the regional government, as he delivered the work report.

“People of all ethnic groups have significantly increased their sense of fulfillment, happiness and security,” Shohrat Zakir said.

Xinjiang will stay committed to fighting terrorism and maintaining stability with effective, law-based measures, he said.

In a historic feat, the region has eliminated absolute poverty, with some 3.06 million rural residents lifted out of poverty in the past five years.

Xinjiang sailed through three rounds of COVID-19 cluster outbreaks last year, which weighed upon the performance of one of China’s main agricultural bases.

The secondary sector, including manufacturing and construction, was the primary contributor to growth. Fixed-asset investment grew 16.2 percent over the previous year.

On the upside, the region registered robust growth from new economic drivers, with a 27.6-percent year-on-year growth in online retail sales and a 25-percent year-on-year increase in high-tech manufacturing added value.

The per capita disposable income of rural residents reached 14,056 yuan (about 2,171 U.S. dollars), up 7.1 percent, as the region’s anti-poverty campaign bore fruit. The increase was paced at 8.3 percent annually on average over the past five years, as more surplus rural labor force found stable jobs.

In pursuing high-quality development, Xinjiang aims to keep its average annual economic growth rate at 6 percent or above in the 2021-2025 period, driven by key engines like the labor-intensive sector, the emerging industries and tourism, according to the government work report.

Aiming to develop itself as a core area of the Silk Road Economic Belt, the region will also expand opening-up and strengthen exchanges and cooperation with neighboring countries, the report said.

Xinjiang is well known for its outstanding natural beauty, attracting hundreds of millions of tourists from home and abroad every year. The region received more than 158 million tourists in 2020, and the regional government expects to receive more than 200 million this year and 400 million by 2025.

“We’ve seen a tourism boom in recent years, as more people find Xinjiang a safe and beautiful place,” said An Ping, a local lawmaker and owner of a two-story restaurant in Turpan, one of Xinjiang’s best-known tourist destinations.

“My main wish this year is for the COVID-19 epidemic to come to an end. I believe our business will rebound to the previous boom once the tourism market heats up,” An said.

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[xizhimen]

Many regions including Xinjiang were under lockdown for a good part of 2020, but Xinjiang still managed to receive 158 million tourists, Xinjiang's total population are just 25 million, less than Beijing's, and one third of Xinjiang's GDP is from tourism, this is just mind blowing...

 

[xizhimen]

Xinjiang's GDP comparing with neighboring central Asian countries.

Xinjiang's 2020 GDP is 1379.75 billion Yuan ( 218.5 billion USD), biggest in the whole central Asian region.

Kazakhstan 165.73 billion USD
Afghanistan 18.63 USD Billion
Tajikistan 7.9 billion USD
Kyrgyzstan 7.48 billion USD

The GDP of All Xinjiang's neighobrs in central Asia added up is still far behind Xinjiang's now.

 

[xizhimen]

Xinjiang's GDP only overtook Kazakhstan's in 2017, after 3 years, the lead is widenning fast.
Now Xinjiang's GDP is much bigger than all her central Asian neighbors' added up.

Development is the best answer for lies, smearings and slanderings.

In merely 3 years, Xinjiang's GDP first beat Kazakhstan and then the whole central Asian region. This is how peace and stability mean for a region's development.

 

[xizhimen]

This was what Xinjiang like before 2016, people lived in constant fear of losing their lives, economy was collapsing, the region became the most improverished in the country, no one dared to travel there. Of course, that's what the west is eager to see in Xinjiang, but did the people living there really enjoy that life?

In 5 years we turned the tables, Xinjiang's tourism is booming now, economy became the biggest in the whole central Asia and in 2020 Xinjiang's GDP just overtook China's traditional industrial and economic powerhouse Heilongjiang province and Jilin province in North East China, Xinjiang now is no longer one of the least developed regions in China.

(There have been no terrorist attacks in Xinjiang since 2017)

 

[xizhimen]

China's Xinjiang aims to keep its annual GDP growth at 6 percent or above from 2021 to 2025​

 

[Jackdaws]

Forced labor and draconian laws may have some economic benefits but that is no justification for trampling on human rights and persecution of own citizens because of their religious preferences.

 

[xizhimen]

Forced labor and draconian laws may have some economic benefits but that is no justification for trampling on human rights and persecution of own citizens because of their religious preferences.

If so can you tell me another region in this world that achieved this level of development in such a short time by forced labor and persecution, can you?

 

[Barry]

Whataboutism.

 

[Jackdaws]

If so can you tell me another region in this world that achieved this level of development in such a short time by forced labor and persecution, can you?

Nazi Germany

 

[ekemenirtu]

Such data should be taken with a grain of salt.

There is no scope for dissenting voices inside China.

Increasingly, Hong Kong is facing the same pressures from the CCP.

Very often, regional governors or leaders are set a GDP target. The accomplishment of such GDP targets would help their careers. Supposedly their career progression and pay depend on GDP statistics. It has been reported, and admitted by the Chinese government, that provincial GDP statistics have been fabricated far too often within the territory of PRC.

Of course, the PRC is not unique in doing so. Many other countries such as the USA, India, other Asian, African and other countries have been accused of such practices, rightly so.

Xinjiang's GDP comparing with neighboring central Asian countries.

Xinjiang's 2020 GDP is 1379.75 billion Yuan ( 218.5 billion USD), biggest in the whole central Asian region.

Kazakhstan 165.73 billion USD
Afghanistan 18.63 USD Billion
Tajikistan 7.9 billion USD
Kyrgyzstan 7.48 billion USD

The GDP of All Xinjiang's neighobrs in central Asia added up is still far behind Xinjiang's now.

 

[ekemenirtu]

The supposed economic benefits, too, will dry up once the low hanging fruits from 'catch up' phase have been harvested.

You may be interested to observe that unlike various Western countries, including the USA - with which Chinese government and private individuals often compare themselves in many ways and seem to be way too obsessed with to be healthy - the Chinese have never come out with a novel idea that the rest of the world have gone on to adopt.

The integrated circuit was certainly not invented in China or East Asia.

Internal combustion engines were not invented in China or East Asia.

The jet engine was not invented in China or East Asia. Or India for that matter.

Space flight was also not invented in China or East Asia.

Even when it comes to such apparently simple tasks as social media, the American social media networks tend to dominate much of the global market despite the obvious threats such domination pose to the sovereignty, independence and well being of citizens of most countries of the world.

Who would have thought - 15 years ago - that Iranian leaders would be using American social media such as Twitter to air their grievances against the same evil establishment of the USA or Zionist regime?

The closest geopolitical allies/partners of the CPC tend to be military junts or dictatorships, preferably both. Pakistan may be nominally a democracy with a relatively free press and media. However, the influence of the military in matters of strategic importance are undeniable.

North Korea, Myanmar, Thailand (with the current junta), Lao or Cambodia are not exactly beacons of freedom. I am not saying India is any better. Under the saffron terrorist regime of Modi, press and media freedom has suffered greatly. Minorities have been subjected to violence and other forms of abuse.

Perverted versions of history have been foisted on their citizenry through state controlled media and government machinery. The independence of the judiciary has been trampled upon.

However, none of that is any excuse for overlooking the excesses committed by the CPC, or the US regimes, or the Zionist regime.

Forced labor and draconian laws may have some economic benefits but that is no justification for trampling on human rights and persecution of own citizens because of their religious preferences.

 

[xizhimen]

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany developed through locking up the whole local population and forced labor? Hitler went to the top through so called "democratic elections", it's a perfect example of how democracy can go wrong and end up like.

 

[xizhimen]

The supposed economic benefits, too, will dry up once the low hanging fruits from 'catch up' phase have been harvested.

You may be interested to observe that unlike various Western countries, including the USA - with which Chinese government and private individuals often compare themselves in many ways and seem to be way too obsessed with to be healthy - the Chinese have never come out with a novel idea that the rest of the world have gone on to adopt.

The integrated circuit was certainly not invented in China or East Asia.

Internal combustion engines were not invented in China or East Asia.

The jet engine was not invented in China or East Asia. Or India for that matter.

Space flight was also not invented in China or East Asia.

Even when it comes to such apparently simple tasks as social media, the American social media networks tend to dominate much of the global market despite the obvious threats such domination pose to the sovereignty, independence and well being of citizens of most countries of the world.

Who would have thought - 15 years ago - that Iranian leaders would be using American social media such as Twitter to air their grievances against the same evil establishment of the USA or Zionist regime?

The closest geopolitical allies/partners of the CPC tend to be military junts or dictatorships, preferably both. Pakistan may be nominally a democracy with a relatively free press and media. However, the influence of the military in matters of strategic importance are undeniable.

North Korea, Myanmar, Thailand (with the current junta), Lao or Cambodia are not exactly beacons of freedom. I am not saying India is any better. Under the saffron terrorist regime of Modi, press and media freedom has suffered greatly. Minorities have been subjected to violence and other forms of abuse.

Perverted versions of history have been foisted on their citizenry through state controlled media and government machinery. The independence of the judiciary has been trampled upon.

However, none of that is any excuse for overlooking the excesses committed by the CPC, or the US regimes, or the Zionist regime.

I agree that the west has been in an unrivaled dominant position in almost everything in the past couples of centuries, but now the situation is changing, looking back couples of centuries during the undisputed global reign of the west and their achievements doesn't neccessorily have any meanings for the couples of centuries to come in the future.

 

[xizhimen]

The west has been criticizing, slandering and discrediting China from day one of PRC over various isssues for the past 70 years, China never listened to them and achieved massive progress and accomplishments amid their unrelenting slanderings and smearings in the past several decades.
In recent years the west greatly ramped up their rhetoric against China on the brink of paranoia, this only shows how increasingly they fear China , they act like an insecure little girl in front of a fast ascending China now.

 

[Jackdaws]

Nazi Germany developed through locking up the whole local population and forced labor? Hitler went to the top through so called "democratic elections", it's a perfect example of how democracy can go wrong and end up like.

Umm. No. Maybe that's the history they teach in CCP. In the democratic world these are presented as facts -

1. Hitler suspended democracy and become an absolute ruler much like Xi

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_Todt

 

[Barry]

Jack, dude's just using a classic propagandist's tool of directing the discussion away from his original topic. He doesn't address Ekimen's reasoned points and instead dives into whining about democracy and other things to get you lads discussing these tangential topics, whilst avoiding any attempt to prove or assert his own positions. He has no data of his own, no mind of his own and I don't know why you entertain his constant stream of CCP-approved materials.

 

[Jackdaws]

Jack, dude's just using a classic propagandist's tool of directing the discussion away from his original topic. He doesn't address Ekimen's reasoned points and instead dives into whining about democracy and other things to get you lads discussing these tangential topics, whilst avoiding any attempt to prove or assert his own positions. He has no data of his own, no mind of his own and I don't know why you entertain his constant stream of CCP-approved materials.

Oh I just came across it. I then see he opens a whole bunch of such propaganda threads when you click "New Posts".

 

[xizhimen]

Umm. No. Maybe that's the history they teach in CCP. In the democratic world these are presented as facts -

1. Hitler suspended democracy and become an absolute ruler much like Xi

2.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_Todt

Without democracy , Hilter wouldn't rise in the first place.

 

[xizhimen]

Jack, dude's just using a classic propagandist's tool of directing the discussion away from his original topic. He doesn't address Ekimen's reasoned points and instead dives into whining about democracy and other things to get you lads discussing these tangential topics, whilst avoiding any attempt to prove or assert his own positions. He has no data of his own, no mind of his own and I don't know why you entertain his constant stream of CCP-approved materials.

I already provide my point in this thread, it's my thead maybe you forget, what's your take on this thread?