Kurban, a Uygur farmer in Xinjiang, who has been riding a donkey in Beijing to see Chairman Mao has been anecdotal. Now the traffic feature of Xinjiang has changed dramatically. The Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region further built "high speed Xinjiang" in 2004, and will reinvest about 13000000000 RMB to upgrade the highway network level of Xinjiang main line.

In 2004, the Xinjiang Department of transportation will invest about 8000000000 yuan of funds for the transformation of the 312 and 314 national highway, about two billion famous tourist routes Guozigou highway reconstruction plan, there are 22 new projects, 38 projects and rural highway construction, the implementation of the plan will make Xinjiang the eighty percent national highway face take on an altogether new aspect.

With the increasing investment in the highway construction, the initial formation of Xinjiang as the center of Urumqi, on the national roads around the northern slope of the Tianshan Mountains economic belt, Tarim Basin, Junggar, across the Gurbantunggut Desert, the Taklimakan Desert, the Tianshan Mountains, the highway traffic network radiation all over the city.

A Xing, baiyexing. The highway network brings to Xinjiang the benefits of modernization is huge: Turpan grapes, Hami melon, are continuously transported to the mainland and abroad; the northern slope of the Tianshan mountains began to breed new vitality; Xinjiang tourism overseas tourists travel just unfolding, desert, mountains, grasslands, lakes, are no longer out of reach.