Shache County, under the Kashgar Region of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, has 5 streets, 14 towns, 14 townships, 1 ethnic township, and 2 management committees. There are 480 administrative villages and 76 communities. Located in the southwest border of Xinjiang, bordered by Yarkant River in the southeast, and Zephyr County and Yecheng County across the river, neighboring with Meigaiti County in the northeast, bordering with Bachu County in the north, adjoining with Yepu Lake and Shule County in the northwest, bordering with Yingjisha and Aketao County in the west, and neighboring with Tashkurgan County in the southwest. In the northern foothills of the Kunlun Mountains, south of the Pamir Plateau, between the Taklamakan Desert and the Buguli Desert, Yarkant River alluvial fan plain in the middle and upper reaches. The administrative area is 8,957 square kilometers.In 2019, the household population of Shache County was 891,392, with more than 20 ethnic groups, including Uyghurs, Han Chinese, Hui, and Tajiks, with ethnic minorities accounting for 96.3% of the total population. Shache County is the largest production base of Batam (Batan wood) in China, and is known as the hometown of Batam in China. Shache has a history of more than 3,000 years. It has been a famous tribal state in the western region for several times, successively known as Shache State, Dusha State and Yarkand Khanate, and is the key point of the ancient Silk Road and a military garrison. It is a historical and cultural city where humanistic landscape and natural landscape, Central Asian culture and western culture are integrated.2021 On January 14, 2021, it was selected as the third batch of typical counties of rural entrepreneurship and innovation in China. In 2022, the gross regional product of Shache County was 157,852,220,000 Yuan, the added value of the primary industry was 567,671,000 Yuan, the added value of the secondary industry was 261,097,000 Yuan, and the added value of the tertiary industry was 749,754,000 Yuan.