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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
URUMQI, January 17 (Xinhua) — In 2025, checkpoints in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region witnessed a surge in entry and exit border crossings. Xinjiang ranked first nationwide in the number of trains entering and exiting the checkpoints, while its capital, Urumqi, led all Chinese cities in the number of round-trip passenger flights to five Central Asian countries (35.1 percent of the country's total). This was announced at a press conference on Friday by the General Administration of Border Control of Xinjiang.
According to the agency, approximately 4.44 million incoming and outgoing passengers and 1.72 million vehicles were inspected and cleared at Xinjiang's checkpoints last year, representing a 36.4 percent and 26.6 percent increase year-on-year, respectively. In particular, the checkpoint at Urumqi Airport, thanks to the opening of a dedicated area for cargo aircraft and the introduction of optimized screening measures, achieved a 170.6 percent year-on-year increase in international cargo flight throughput.
Currently, the General Administration of Border Control of Xinjiang oversees 19 outwardly open border crossings and 20.8 square kilometers of border territory. As the construction of "smart border crossings" progresses and institutional openness further expands, Xinjiang's border crossings promise to become a more important corridor connecting China with the Central Asian region and even the broader international market, the administration asserted.
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