Kashgar,withthegeo-advantageof‘5portslinking8foreigncountriesandoneroadconnectingAsiaandEurope’,isanimportantinternationalgatewayforChinatoenterCentralAsia,SouthAsia,WestAsiaandevenEurope。TobuildKashgarintoawindowcityopeningtotheWestandpushforwardtheformingofanewopeningstructurebothonandofflandareChina’scurrentsubstantialdevelopmentstrategies。Itis30yearsaftertheintroductionoftheReformandOpeningthatKashgarbegantoquickenitsstepsofopeningandsetupthespecialeconomiczone,duringwhichthegeneralrequirementistoacceleratethetransitionoftheeconomicdevelopmentmodeandrealizethecomprehensive,systematicandstrategictransformation。Therefore,thereformandopeninginKashgarshouldbemorecomprehensive,strategicandinnovative。Weshouldcombine‘bigopening’and‘deepreform’intoone,promotingreforminbiggerareasandpushingopeningonhigherlevels。Undersuchstructure,aneweconomicsystemof‘onegateway,onezoneandthreecenters’canbesetup,namely,aninternationalgatewaybasedontradeports,afreetradezoneandaninternationalcommercialcenter,exhibitioncenterandtouristcenter。‘Shenzhenisintheeast,andKashgarisinthewest。’Wehopethattheoldandthenewspecialeconomiczonescanholdhandsandachievethetargetofmutualdevelopment。
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