What are the policies implemented in Xinjiang?

Xinjiang has rich and unique tourism resources, and the prospects for developing tourism are very broad. Since the reform and opening up, Xinjiang's tourism infrastructure has been significantly improved, the quality of tourism services has been continuously improved, and tourism products have become increasingly rich. The tourism industry has played an important role in promoting national economic growth, promoting opening up to the outside world, and driving the development of related industries. Tourism is becoming a new growth point for the autonomous region's national economy and one of the advantageous industries with the greatest potential for development. With the implementation of the Western Development Strategy, the country has intensified the efforts to tilt the tourism industry westward and issued the "Notice of the State Council on Further Accelerating the Development of Tourism", which has greatly promoted the development of Xinjiang's tourism industry. At the same time, it should also be noted that the development of tourism in Xinjiang is still in its infancy, and there is still a big gap compared with provinces and regions with developed tourism; compared with Xinjiang’s rich and unique tourism resource advantages, its advantages and potential are still far away. Didn't show up. In order to further accelerate the development of tourism in Xinjiang, the following decisions have been made: 1. The significance, guiding ideology and basic principles of accelerating the development of tourism (1) Tourism is one of the fastest-growing emerging industries with the broadest prospects in the world today. The central government’s decision to implement the Western Development Strategy has provided new opportunities for accelerating the development of tourism in Xinjiang. The Party Committee of the Autonomous Region and the People’s Government of the Autonomous Region have decided to list tourism as an industry with advantages and potential for economic development in the region to further emancipate the mind and update concepts. , effectively enhance the awareness of opportunities, market awareness and competition, make full use of Xinjiang's location, resources and market advantages, achieve catch-up and leap-forward development as soon as possible, accelerate the cultivation of tourism pillar industries, and use the driving role of tourism in related industries to promote regional economy The overall development of the country and striving to realize the leap from a large tourism resource area to a strong tourism area have great practical significance and far-reaching historical significance. (2) Guiding ideology. Guided by the spirit of the "Notice of the State Council on Further Accelerating the Development of Tourism Industry", we will implement a government-led and market demand-oriented grand tourism development strategy. Rely on resource advantages, vigorously develop and develop famous brand tourism products, maximize the transformation of tourism resource advantages into industrial advantages and economic advantages, enhance the industry driving and radiation functions of tourism, and cultivate tourism into the most dynamic national economy in the region As a pillar industry, the rapid development of tourism promotes the rapid growth of the national economy of the autonomous region. (3) Basic principles. 1. Adhere to the rule of law and implement a development strategy that is government-led and market demand-oriented. 2. Adhere to the development policy of taking international tourism as the guide, border tourism as the support, and domestic tourism as the basis; 3. Adhere to cultivating the tourism industry as the pillar industry with the greatest development potential, and forming the development of big tourism, big industry, and big market pattern; 4. Adhere to unified planning, overall design, highlight features, key developments, and vigorously develop characteristic tourism products; 5. Adhere to the sustainable development model of the tourism industry that adheres to protection first, rational development, and a virtuous cycle of social, economic and ecological benefits. . 2. The goal of accelerating the development of tourism industry (4) Overall goal. In 2005, Xinjiang was built into my country's important international tourism region connecting Central Asia and Europe. Its total tourism revenue ranked in the middle and upper levels of the country, making it one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing tourism regions in the country at the beginning of the 21st century. With the "Silk Road" as the main line, we will establish an international brand image of Xinjiang tourism, making the high-grade natural landscape and rich ethnic customs and cultural landscapes become famous tourism products at home and abroad. The overall image of Xinjiang tourism in the international and domestic tourism markets will be The market share has been greatly increased, the tourism facilities, service quality and management level have reached the first-class level in the country, a fast, safe and efficient tourism transportation network has been formed between key tourist attractions, and the total tourism economic volume and strength have been significantly improved. By 2011, the strength of the tourism industry will be further consolidated and expanded, achieving a historic leap from a large tourism economic region to a strong tourism economic region. (5) Tourism economic growth goals. By 2005, the plan to double tourism development will be realized. Total international and domestic tourism revenue grew at an average annual rate of 10.9%, reaching 13.682 billion yuan, equivalent to more than 7.45% of the region's GDP that year. Among them: the number of overseas tourists increased by an average of 7.9% per year, reaching 386,400 (times); the foreign exchange income from tourism increased by an average of 9.5% per year, reaching US$164 million; the number of domestic tourists increased by an average of 9.5% per year, reaching 13.38 million ( times), domestic tourism revenue grew at an average annual rate of 11%, reaching 12.321 billion yuan. (6) Tourism industry development goals. We will vigorously develop the inbound tourist source market. By 2005, while maintaining a steady growth in inbound tourists from the CIS, Japan, the United States, South Korea and other countries, the markets in Southeast Asia, Europe and the Middle East will be further developed. The domestic tourist source market continues to expand, with six regions receiving more than 1 million tourists and four regions receiving more than 3 million tourists (times) throughout the year. There are more than 400 tourist star hotels, and we strive to have 3 to 4 international travel agencies among the top 100 international travel agencies in the country, 2 to 3 domestic travel agencies into the top 100 domestic travel agencies in the country, and 2 tourism companies to become listed companies. 3. Give full play to resource advantages and vigorously develop characteristic tourism products. (7) Further accelerate the development and construction of tourist attractions focusing on the five major tourist areas.

The Kanas Ecological Tourism Area should focus on accelerating the development of ecological tourism such as Kanas Lake, Baihaba River, and Ulungu Lake; the scenic tourist area focusing on Tianchi and Bosten Lake should be built into a tourist, leisure, and vacation-focused area. Tourist destinations; ancient cultural heritage tourist areas with Turpan as the focus should focus on the Silk Road and deeply explore the profound connotations of ancient cultural heritage sites; Kashgar folk customs tourist areas should highlight the rendering of rich folk customs, folk customs, and folk sentiments; Yili Jiangnan Tourism outside the Great Wall With Yining City as the center, the district is accelerating the construction of Nalati and Tangbula scenic spots to become tourist attractions for sightseeing, leisure and vacation. (8) Accelerate the pace of construction of famous tourist cities. Before 2005, Urumqi, Turpan, and Korla will be built into internationally renowned tourist cities; Kashgar, Yining, Hami, Altay, Aksu, Shihezi, Karamay, Changji and other cities will be built into national outstanding tourist cities. In 2011, Urumqi, Turpan, Korla, Altay, Yining and Kashgar will be built into international tourist cities with civilized society, beautiful environment, complete functions and convenient transportation. (9) Develop and construct high-quality tourist routes. With the "Silk Road" as the main line and the "Three Lines" as the backbone, a large tourism route network in line with international standards has been formed. The "three lines" that are focused on construction and launch are: Turpan-Korla-Tazhong-Hotian-Kashgar line, which is mainly focused on experiencing folk customs, historical visits, longevity culture, adventure, sightseeing, and inspection; Urumqi-Tianchi-Karamay-Ulun The ancient lake-Kanas Lake line mainly focuses on ecological tourism, industrial tourism, leisure, and vacation; the Urumqi-Kuitun-Jorma-Nalati-Bayinbuluke-Jinshatan-Urumqi line focuses on agricultural tourism, leisure , sightseeing and inspection mainly. At the same time, we will continue to promote multi-functional boutique routes such as shopping, ice and snow scenery, business tourism, urban scenery, adventure inspections, and folk customs tourism. (10) Develop famous brand tourism products. We must adhere to the principles of facing the world, facing the market, overall planning, focusing on key points, highlighting characteristics, and rational layout, and develop and build a number of tourism products with great influence at home and abroad and distinctive features as soon as possible. Before 2005, Tianchi, Kanas, Grape Valley, Nanshanxi Baiyang Valley, Jinshatan Beach, etc. will be built into mature, world-class tourism products that are in line with international standards; before 2011, the key tourist prefectures and cities in the region will have 1 to 2 world-class or national-level tourism products. 4. Increase publicity and promotion efforts and vigorously expand the tourist source market (11) Vigorously expand domestic and overseas tourism markets. Vigorously develop inbound tourism, make full use of Xinjiang's geographical advantages of opening up to the west, continue to consolidate and expand the tourism and shopping markets with Central Asia, West Asia, Pakistan and other countries and regions, focus on developing the United States, Japan, South Korea, and Western European markets, and strive to expand Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macao market, forming a diversified market pattern of inbound tourists. Actively develop domestic tourism, strengthen cooperation with the tourism markets of the economically developed eastern coastal areas and surrounding provinces (regions), and pay attention to tapping the potential of the tourist source market in the region. (12) Organize tourism festivals well. Vigorously develop and develop emerging tourism markets such as exhibition tourism, business tourism, agricultural tourism, industrial tourism, urban tourism, eco-tourism, cultural tourism, festival tourism, etc., and actively apply for and organize various national and international conferences, exhibitions, culture, and sports , economic and trade and other large-scale activities, taking advantage of the situation to create market and form a good tourism effect. Adopting a government-led and market-operated approach, we will strive to turn the Urumqi "Urumqi Fair", Turpan Grape Festival, Bozhou Naadam Conference, Kashgar Darwazi, etc. into tourism festivals with great international and domestic influence. (13) Pay attention to the packaging and promotion of the overall image of tourism. Party governments and relevant departments at all levels should promote the overall image of Xinjiang tourism as an important part of internal and external publicity. News units should work closely with the tourism department to develop tourism column programs, and actively transmit, exchange and promote Xinjiang tourism programs to central news units and domestic and foreign media, with a focus on launching Xinjiang tourism brands. External publicity, foreign affairs, tourism, culture, news, film and television departments at all levels should actively invite domestic and foreign journalists, travel agents and celebrities to conduct on-site inspections and interviews in key tourist areas in Xinjiang to increase the visibility of Xinjiang tourism products as soon as possible. (14) Improve tourism publicity and promotion methods. Use various forms of publicity and promotion such as movies, songs, advertisements, and the Internet to increase the influence, coverage, and technological content of publicity and promotion, and enhance the effectiveness of tourism publicity and promotion. The tourism administrative department should actively organize various tourism units to participate in domestic and foreign tourism trade fairs and various tourism publicity and promotion activities, and strengthen cooperation with the domestic and foreign tourism circles. Simplify the approval process for overseas promotional personnel and implement a one-year application and one-year validity policy. Actively create conditions to set up tourism promotion windows or offices in major tourist source countries (regions), and work closely with the overseas offices of the National Tourism Administration to promote Xinjiang tourism products. 5. Strengthen tourism management, improve comprehensive service levels, and continuously improve the tourism environment. (15) Accelerate the construction of tourism legal systems. We should promptly formulate and improve local tourism laws and regulations and government regulations, and establish and improve the tourism legal system. Improve the tourism administrative law enforcement system and quality supervision network, establish a Xinjiang tourism law enforcement brigade as soon as possible, and improve the quality and law enforcement level of the tourism law enforcement team. Establish a unified tourism complaint telephone system across the region to accept complaints in a timely manner and investigate and deal with various violations of laws and regulations. (16) Further adjust and enrich the tourism development plan. In accordance with the overall requirements of the autonomous region's "Tenth Five-Year Plan", we must continue to work hard to enrich and improve the region's "Tourism Development Plan".

All localities should formulate and improve their regional tourism development plans in accordance with the requirements of overall planning and highlighting characteristics, improve the scientificity, authority and operability of the plans, and ensure the sustainable use of tourist attractions (spots). (17) Do a good job in establishing tourism development projects. For major tourism development projects that have a certain influence at home and abroad, we must actively strive to be included in the national key construction project plan; the planning and arrangement of key construction projects in the autonomous region must take overall consideration of tourism development projects, and focus on those projects that are in line with Xinjiang’s tourism investment orientation, have distinctive characteristics, and are Tourism projects of a certain scale should be included in the autonomous region's key construction project plans with priority and be actively supported. The planning and other departments of the autonomous region must effectively strengthen tourism planning and project management. When formulating medium- and long-term national economic plans and annual infrastructure and technological transformation plans, all localities must allocate a certain proportion of tourism project construction funds and increase investment in key tourism infrastructure construction. Tourism infrastructure national debt projects must be managed in accordance with the autonomous region's key construction project management model. (18) Establish and improve the comprehensive management mechanism of the tourism market. The governments of all regions and key tourism areas in the region should propose a joint meeting system for comprehensive management of the tourism market to coordinate and handle major issues in the comprehensive management of the tourism market; all relevant departments must perform their duties, assume their responsibilities, cooperate closely, and coordinate together Maintain order in the tourism market. (19) Strengthen tourism safety management. A sound safety system must be established and implemented in all aspects of tourism activities to prevent the occurrence of various safety accidents, especially serious and extremely serious accidents. The governments of key tourist areas and relevant departments, tourism enterprises, and tourist attractions (spots) must formulate emergency response plans for tourism safety accidents; establish a social linkage system centered on 110 and 120 to promptly investigate and deal with criminal and public security cases, and handle personal and property safety accidents and Other emergencies. (20) Accelerate the formation of standardized service standards for travel agencies, tourist hotels, and designated tourism enterprises. Strengthen the standardized management of service quality of tourism enterprises and firmly establish the concept of service quality first. Strengthen the management of travel agencies and tour guides, and standardize tour guide explanations and team operations. Strengthen the evaluation of star-rated hotels and bring more tourist hotels into the standardized and standardized management track of star-rated hotels. Continue to introduce advanced management models and experiences at home and abroad to improve the overall level of hotel management in Xinjiang. Effectively strengthen the management of designated units and tourist vehicles such as tourism and shopping. (21) Create China’s outstanding tourist cities and national tourist areas (spots). On the basis of continuing to consolidate and develop the achievements of China's outstanding tourism cities such as Urumqi, Turpan, and Korla, we will further expand the scope of the cities created and strive to establish Kashgar, Altay, and Yining as China's outstanding tourism cities as soon as possible. Carry out activities to build "strong tourism cities (counties)" in key tourist cities and counties in the region to further enhance the city's tourism economic strength and national visibility. Actively organize and implement the "Classification and Assessment of Quality Levels of Tourist Areas (Spots)" promulgated by the state, standardize the facility standards and service quality of scenic spots, strive to create "A" level tourist attractions (spots) promulgated by the state, and further improve tourist attractions (Point) comprehensive service level and market competitiveness. (22) Accelerate the cultivation of a team of high-quality tourism employees. Establish an education and training system for tourism talents and practitioners, give full play to the advantages of tourism majors in colleges and universities in the region, accelerate the cultivation of high- and intermediate-level tourism management talents and practical talents, and optimize the academic qualifications and professional title structure of the tourism industry team. Various forms of training will be adopted for tourism employees to strengthen the construction of professional ethics and business quality. The focus of tourism enterprises is to certify the qualifications of managers of star hotels and travel agencies, and to improve the system for employees to work with certificates. By 2005, the proportion of tourism employees holding certificates will reach more than 80%. (23) Create a good tourism environment. To implement the smooth tourism project, law enforcement and inspection departments and units are not allowed to intercept and inspect tourist vehicles on the way, and tourist cities must provide convenience for tourist vehicles to enter the city. Strengthen the comprehensive management of social security in tourist cities, tourist attractions (spots) and along tourist routes, improve the civility of residents, and jointly shape and maintain a good image of Xinjiang tourism. (24) Earnestly do a good job in the reasonable development and protection of tourism resources. It is necessary to strictly formulate scientific development and protection plans, adhere to the principle of equal emphasis on development and protection, and the unification of economic benefits, social benefits and ecological benefits, resolutely put an end to blind development, low-level development and destructive development of natural landscapes and cultural landscapes, and strive to Achieve sustainable development of tourism. (25) Vigorously develop border tourism. It is necessary to give full play to the geographical advantages of tourist center cities and border ports. By formulating relevant preferential policies, efforts will be made to improve the border tourism environment, standardize market order, and gradually establish a market system and service functions compatible with border tourism. 6. Accelerate transportation construction around tourism development and improve tourism supporting functions (26) Accelerate the construction of tourism air transportation. Build Urumqi International Airport into the main import and export port for international tourism in the west, forming a tourism aviation network connecting major tourist source countries, key tourist cities and tourist attractions inside and outside the province. Focusing on market development in major source countries, we will actively open up international routes from Urumqi to Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea and Europe. Accelerate the construction of aviation branch lines in the region around key tourist attractions. (27) Build a high-level tourist highway network. Focusing on the construction of key tourist areas and quality tourist routes, a high-level tourist highway network will be formed as soon as possible from Urumqi to major tourist cities and tourist attractions, as well as between tourist cities and tourist attractions.

The transportation department should open additional tourist passenger lines in key tourist areas and tourist routes. Accelerate the construction of Urumqi-Tokson-Korla, Kuitun-Yining high-grade highways; reconstruct and upgrade Yining-Xinyuan, Kuitun-Jorma-Bayinbuluk-Jinshatan, Aksu-Kuqa-Korla, Kashgar-Hongqi Lafu, Artush-Kashgar-Oytak and other trunk roads and tourist roads. (28) Develop railway tourism transportation network. Focusing on the planning and development of major tourist routes in the west, we should improve the utilization rate of the Lanzhou-Xinjiang railway line and form a railway tourism transportation network between Xinjiang and the tourist cities of inland provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities), and Urumqi and the tourist cities in the region as soon as possible. Improve the grade and operating speed of tourist trains, and add luxurious and comfortable special tourist trains that arrive "from morning to night". (29) Improve tourism supporting functions. All localities and departments must work together to improve communication, postal, electricity, banking, medical, water supply, catering, environmental protection and other service facilities and functions in tourist cities, tourist attractions, and tourist transportation routes as soon as possible. Thoroughly control the dirty, messy and poor phenomena in tourist attractions (spots), speed up the construction of public toilet projects, adhere to the principle of "whoever operates, who is responsible", gas stations, parking lots, etc. along scenic spots (spots) and tourist routes. If water flushing toilets and environmentally friendly toilets are not established, the tourism and industrial and commercial administration departments have the right to cancel their business qualifications. 7. Implement preferential policies to support the development of the tourism industry (30) Further increase support for the tourism industry. The planning, finance, tourism and other departments of the autonomous region must actively find ways to obtain national debt and capital construction funds from the central budget for tourism infrastructure construction. The autonomous region's planning and finance departments must ensure that the autonomous region's annual tourism infrastructure construction funds of 2.6 million yuan, 2 million yuan of tourism development funds and 2 million yuan of special funds for tourism promotion are promptly and fully received, and use this as a base to increase by 15% every year. All localities must also continue to increase financial support for the tourism industry. It is necessary to actively support qualified tourism enterprises to raise funds through listing and issuing stocks. (31) Give full play to port advantages and invigorate border tourism. It is necessary to further simplify entry and exit procedures and customs clearance and inspection procedures for tourism and shopping. It is necessary to take advantage of the visa-free exchange conditions between Xinjiang and Kazakhstan ports to continuously expand tourism and shopping trade, and provide preferential tax collection. The foreign exchange management department should organize relevant commercial banks to set up foreign exchange exchange points in designated tourist shopping markets and border ports to provide convenience for tourists and prevent foreign exchange from being lost or entering the black market for illegal transactions. The Foreign Affairs Office of the autonomous region, public security and other departments should continue to seek from relevant national departments for our personnel to go to Kazakhstan's border areas for "one-day tours" or "multi-day tours", and to implement a 72-hour policy for overseas tourists in major cities and key border ports in Xinjiang. Visa exemption and implementation of visa-related policies. For the review and approval of overseas tourism promotion personnel, a one-time application and one-year validity method will be implemented. At the same time, we will speed up the application and approval work for the 13 newly opened counties (cities). (32) Give full play to the role of the market price mechanism and rationally use fares at tourist attractions (spots) to regulate the flow of tourists in low and peak seasons; the civil aviation department should increase the intensity of differential pricing of civil aviation air tickets based on seasons, time periods, and routes. (33) Implement the same electricity, water and gas prices for hotels and restaurants as those for general industrial and commercial enterprises. All localities should intensify the inspection and cleanup of various fees paid by tourist hotels and restaurants. For unreasonable charging items, those that should be reduced should be reduced, and those that should be canceled should be resolutely cancelled. (34) All relevant departments should actively help tourism investors solve the difficulties encountered in project development and construction. For those who have operational difficulties and are determined by relevant departments, they will be exempted from paying property tax on production and business premises for three years from the date of business opening. For land used for tourism business projects, only land acquisition fees are charged and land use rights transfer fees are exempted. (35) Continue to vigorously promote the creation of "China's Excellent Tourism City" and "Strong Tourism County" activities. For the selected tourist cities, the relevant departments of the autonomous region should provide key support in terms of infrastructure project establishment and capital investment. (36) Formulate preferential policies to encourage various economic sectors at home and abroad to invest in tourism construction and establish joint venture travel agencies and other tourism enterprises in Xinjiang. It is necessary to fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all parties, adhere to the principle that the country, collectives, departments, enterprises, and individuals, as well as domestic and foreign capital, and "who invests, benefit", encourage and guide all aspects of human, material, and financial investment in the tourism industry, Efforts will be made to expand the scale of tourism development and actively improve the diversified tourism market entities. Relevant departments must carefully select good tourism facility projects and strive to enter the country's "Catalogue of Advantageous Industries for Foreign Investment in the Central and Western Regions" to enjoy relevant preferential policies and actively attract foreign investment. Xinjiang tourism enterprises are encouraged to participate in domestic regional economic cooperation and strengthen cooperation and exchanges with tourism enterprises outside the region. (37) Encourage the development and production of tourist souvenirs and tourism commodities; operators who develop and produce tourist souvenirs enjoy a three-year income tax exemption policy. 8. Effectively strengthen leadership over tourism development (38) Party and government departments at all levels should further improve their understanding of the importance of developing tourism, adhere to the government-led tourism development strategy, and strengthen the organization, coordination, leadership and management of tourism work. Strengthen support, promptly study and solve the difficulties and "hot" issues in the development of tourism in the region, and create a good external environment for the development of tourism. It is necessary to further strengthen the management functions of tourism administrative departments over the tourism industry.

All relevant departments must strengthen their awareness of the tourism industry, actively cooperate with the tourism department, enhance their awareness of serving the development of Xinjiang's tourism industry, effectively change their concepts, work closely together, and form synergy to support the development of tourism in all aspects. (39) Strengthen industry management and standardize the order of the tourism market. It is necessary to strictly implement the travel agency access system. Without the approval of the tourism administrative department, the industrial and commercial department shall not apply for a business license. It is necessary to continuously regulate the business behavior of travel agencies and tour guides, improve the complaint mechanism, improve handling procedures, increase the complaint settlement rate, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of tourists in accordance with the law. Tourism products and services must be clearly priced to combat price fraud and other illegal activities. It is necessary to severely crack down on the behavior of operating tourism business without a license and disrupting the tourism market. Vigorously advocate healthy and civilized tourism consumption, resolutely resist and severely crack down on "pornography, gambling, and drugs". (40) Strengthen tourism safety and health protection. All regions and relevant departments must attach great importance to tourism safety and effectively implement social security, traffic management, health and epidemic prevention in tourist areas (spots) and tourist cities. It is necessary to establish an early warning linkage system; formulate emergency response plans for tourism safety and firefighting accidents, implement safety and firefighting responsibility systems, prevent accidental tourism safety accidents, especially major safety accidents, and ensure the safety of tourists. (41) The autonomous region’s tourism leading group should further play its macro-coordinating role, adhere to the regular meeting system, and promptly coordinate and resolve existing problems in the region’s tourism development. The People's Congress of the Autonomous Region should promptly formulate the implementation details of the "Tourism Management Regulations"; the Autonomous Region Tourism Industry Association should give full play to its role as a bridge between the government and enterprises and strengthen industry self-discipline.

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