Altay Region, region under the jurisdiction of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, governed by the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, located in northern Xinjiang and bordering Russia, Kazakhstan, and Mongolia; complex and varied landforms, mainly divided into mountains, hills, plains, and deserts, with dry, hot summers and bitterly cold winters; 1,197-km-long border, 118,000-sq-km total area. As of October 2022, the region has one county-level city and six counties. As of June 2023, the population of the region was 668,587 people. Altay region is the only region in northwest China bordering Russia, is the northern corridor of the Silk Road Economic Belt and Xinjiang to participate in the construction of the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor is an important node of the city; has three national land ports; is the relative abundance of water in Xinjiang, known as the northern border "water tower"; is one of the country's six major forested areas, and at the same time, the State Council has identified At the same time, the State Council identified as a water-sustaining mountain grassland ecological function area, known as the "Golden Mountain Silver Water", the origin of human skiing, China's snow capital. In 2022, the Altay region realized a gross domestic product (GDP) of 39.971 billion yuan, an increase of 1.3% over the previous year.