Kashgar, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. The region has 1 county-level city, 10 counties, and 1 autonomous county under its jurisdiction, with a total area of 162,000 square kilometers. According to the seventh population census, as of 00:00 on November 1, 2020, the resident population of Kashgar Region was 4,496,377 people. Kashgar Region is located in the northwest of the People's Republic of China and the southwest of Xinjiang. It is bordered by the Taklamakan Desert in the east, Keping County and Awati County in the northeast, Atushi City, Wuqia County and Aketao County in the northwest, Pishan County in the southeast, Tajikistan in the west, and Afghanistan and Pakistan in the southwest. The Kashgar region was known as "Shule", "Renru" and "Shushu" in ancient times, including the ancient Shule (present-day Kashgar City, Shushu County, Shule County and Gashi County), Puli (present-day Tashkurgan), Shache, Yining (in present-day Yingjisha and Aketao), Wuhuozhao (in present-day southern Tashkurgan), and Xiyang (in present-day Yecheng). Kashgar, as the transportation hub of the ancient Silk Road, is an international commercial port where Chinese and foreign merchants gather; it is also a national historical and cultural city in Xinjiang, which concentrates on the characteristics and essence of Uyghur folk customs, culture and art, architectural style and traditional economy.In 2010, the Kashgar Economic Development Zone (KEDZ) was approved to be a Special Economic Zone (SEZ). In 2023, the economy of Kashgar region showed a stable and improving trend. By the unified accounting of the autonomous region, the regional gross domestic product (GDP) was 150.835 billion yuan, an increase of 6.4% year-on-year. Among them, the added value of the primary industry amounted to 49.314 billion yuan, up 6.5% year-on-year, the added value of the secondary industry amounted to 29.934 billion yuan, up 7.6% year-on-year, and the added value of the tertiary industry amounted to 71.587 billion yuan, up 5.8% year-on-year.