Xinjian Corps--Xinjiang Tomato Planting area--Xinjiang

Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC for short), also called China Xinjian Group, is distributed within the boundaries of 67 counties of 13 prefectures in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Just like the other adminstration zones, XPCC possesses the functions of developing the economic and agriculture of Xinjiang, and each member of XPCC has lots of producing bases and companies of different products.

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region is located in the northwestern part of China, with an area of 1,664,900 square kilometers, covering one sixth of China's total area. Xinjiang is situated in the hinterland of Eurasia, bordering 8 countries from northeast to southwest, namely, Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, with a border line of 5,600 kilometers. It is a region with the longest border line and the largest number of ports opening to the outside world in China. Once an important channel along the ancient Silk Road, it is now the second bridgehead of "Eurasian continental railway".

At the end of 2005, XPCC had a total population of 2.5698 million, including an urban population of 673,400, farm population in farming and animal husbandry regiment of 1.8964 million, respectively covering 26.2% and 73.8% of the total population.
XPCC has tomato products of more than 30 varieties and an annual ketchup and its product productivity of 600,000 tons, export covering 50% of China's total export amount, has formed an industrial chain with vat ketchup as initial product, tomato cubes, peeled entire tomato, small package tomato products as middle product, lycopene and other products with high added value as terminal. XPCC has had its products passed 7 authentications, namely, ISO9002, ISO14001 and HACCP, Judaism, European Food Organization, non-transgene variety authentication and Islamic food authentication. The products sell well in more than 70 countries and regions. The largest tomato campany in XPCC is Chalkis Tomato Product Co., Ltd. which is a state-level leading agriculture industrialized enterprise with a tomato sown area of 36,300 hectares and an annual output of 2.69 million tons.