Wedoany.com Report on Feb 3rd, in 2025, the total import and export trade value of China's Xinjiang reached 520.37 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 19.9%, which is 16.1 percentage points higher than the national growth rate, ranking first in the country.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang's foreign trade development showed a positive momentum and accelerated pace, successively surpassing the thresholds of 200 billion yuan, 300 billion yuan, 400 billion yuan, and 500 billion yuan. The cumulative foreign trade value exceeded 1.71 trillion yuan, an increase of 144.3% compared to the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
In 2025, Xinjiang successively introduced policies such as the "Regulations on Promoting Port Economic Development in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region," the "Regulations on the China (Xinjiang) Pilot Free Trade Zone," and the "Implementation Plan for Smart Port Construction in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region," continuously optimizing the layout of the foreign trade industry and strengthening the support for foreign trade development. At the same time, a series of measures to improve port clearance efficiency were implemented, continuously making efforts in areas such as innovation in supervision models and enhancement of customs clearance facilitation.
Alashankou Customs has continuously promoted the reform of the "Smart Railway Port + Local Rapid Clearance" model, optimizing clearance procedures through informatization and intelligent means. Sophia Wumaierjiang, Deputy Section Chief of the Comprehensive Business Section I at Alashankou Customs, said that by implementing railway manifest consolidation and promoting intelligent machine inspection and image review technology, the "immediate inspection and immediate release upon arrival" of freight trains has been achieved, reducing the waiting time of trains at the port. In 2025, the overall port clearance time was reduced by 18.4% compared to 2024.
With continuously improving clearance efficiency, the number of China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains passing through Alashankou Customs in Xinjiang reached a record high in 2025, with an annual total of 8,165 trains, a year-on-year increase of 6.3%, surpassing the 8,000-train mark for the first time.
As a key node in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," the Khorgos Port handled 46.431 million tons of import and export cargo in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 1.9%, ranking first among Xinjiang's ports for eight consecutive years. In terms of road ports, driven by reform models such as "Road Port + Local Direct Clearance" and "Rapid Clearance for Self-exported Commercial Vehicles," the cargo volume increased by 27.3% year-on-year.
"Our company has been acting as an agent at the port for over 10 years and has witnessed the continuous improvement in clearance efficiency. In 2025, our company's business volume increased by over 30% year-on-year," said Guo Chunlei, Business Supervisor of Xinjiang Zhonglian Haitong International Freight Forwarding Co., Ltd.
A series of reform measures have yielded practical results. In 2025, the import and export cargo volume at Xinjiang's railway ports reached 30.669 million tons, an increase of 11.5%; 18,000 China-Europe (Central Asia) freight trains were supervised, an increase of 7.4%, ranking first in the country in terms of supervised trains; the cargo volume at aviation ports and the number of inbound and outbound cargo flights increased by 150.5% and 80.6%, respectively.
