Traditional Culture Encyclopedia - The 24 Solar Terms - Xinjiang has several prefecture-level cities and autonomous prefectures.

Xinjiang has several prefecture-level cities and autonomous prefectures.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has four prefecture-level cities, five regions and five autonomous prefectures, with a total of 14 prefecture-level city divisions.

By the end of 65438+February 2020, the whole region had 13 municipal districts, 28 county-level cities (emerging counties were upgraded to emerging cities in 20021year), 60 counties and 6 autonomous counties, with a total of 107 county-level divisions. By September 2020, the whole region will have jurisdiction over 200 streets, 4 13 towns, 447 townships and 42 ethnic townships, with a total of 1 102 township-level divisions.

mineral resources

Xinjiang has a complete range of minerals, large reserves and broad development prospects. 0/38 kinds of minerals/kloc-have been discovered, among which 9 kinds of reserves rank first in China and 32 kinds rank first in northwest China. Oil, natural gas, coal, gold, chromium, copper, nickel, rare metals, salt minerals and non-metallic building materials are abundant. Xinjiang's oil resources are 20.86 billion tons, accounting for 30% of the country's onshore oil resources.

Natural gas resources 10.3 trillion cubic meters, accounting for 34% of the national onshore natural gas resources. Xinjiang's oil and gas exploration and development potential is huge, and the prospect is very considerable. The forecast of coal resources in Xinjiang is 210.9 trillion tons, accounting for 40% of the whole country. There are many kinds of resources such as gold, precious stones and jade, which are well known in ancient and modern times.