At the beginning of the new year, Xinjiang farmer Tuldubaik Maimetiwu plans to expand his freight business. After purchasing a truck in March 2024, he earned 60,000 yuan throughout the year.
"In the past two years, there have been many major projects in southern Xinjiang, which have increased job opportunities." Turdubaik Maimetiwu's home is Kuleahrik Village, Heiziwei Township, Wucha County, Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Southern Xinjiang. Today, his family's main source of income has changed from grazing to wage income.
More and more people are increasing their income with the help of the government. At the third press conference of the 2025 Autonomous Region Two Sessions held on January 20, Zhou Xuyong, Secretary-General and Director of the General Office of the Autonomous Region People's Government, introduced that in 2024, the Autonomous Region continued to increase investment in people's livelihood, and more than 77% of the fiscal expenditure in Xinjiang was invested in people's livelihood, especially in promoting employment, education, medical services, social security, rural revitalization and other people's livelihood undertakings.
Southern Xinjiang is a region with relatively weak economic development in Xinjiang and a key area for the development of people's livelihood. Xu Hongyun, secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Autonomous Region Government Research Office, said that this year, Xinjiang will continue to tilt major people's livelihood projects to southern Xinjiang, effectively solve people's livelihood issues that concern the interests of the people, create a harmonious and stable social environment, and further gather people.
At the same time, Xinjiang proposed to "accelerate the cultivation of new growth poles in southern Xinjiang, promote urban-rural integration and regional coordinated development", aiming to continuously strengthen the characteristic and advantageous industries of southern Xinjiang by increasing support for southern Xinjiang in all aspects, and steadily promote new urbanization with people as the core, and ensure that southern Xinjiang does not fall behind or fall behind in Chinese-style modernization construction. (Reporter Du Gang)
