Geographical location of Horgos port

Horgos Port is located in Horgos City, Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, with east longitude of 80 29 ′ and north latitude of 4414 ′. It can be clearly seen from the map that the border between China and Kazakhstan is bounded by the winding Khorgos River, hence the name Khorgos Port. On June 6th, 2006, with the approval of the State Council, Horgos Port was reopened to Kazakhstan and third countries. 1In August 1992, the Chinese and Kazakh governments agreed that the port was open to a third country and had the status of international combined transport. Now the third country has been abolished and is only open to Kazakhstan.

Horgos Port is 90 kilometers away from Yining City and 670 kilometers away from Urumqi City. The other port is Khorgos Port in Kazakhstan, which is only 15km away from China Port, 35km away from Yalkent (formerly known as panfilov) in Kazakhstan and 378km away from Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan.

Horgos Port has a long history. As far back as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, it was an important post station on the New North Road of the ancient Silk Road. After the founding of New China, Horgos Port became the largest western port of Sino-Soviet trade with its superior geographical position. From 65438 to 0983, the international situation improved, and China also ushered in the upsurge of reform and opening up. Since then, the Horgos port, which has been silent for nearly 20 years, has recovered its vitality. Under the influence of the spring breeze of reform and opening up, in recent years, the types and quantities of goods imported and exported through Horgos Port have increased sharply, and the number of people entering and leaving the port and the volume of goods passing through the port have increased year by year.

Horgos Port is a national first-class land highway port with the longest comprehensive transportation volume, the best natural environment and the most complete functions in the history of western China. Horgos Port is an important port for trade between Xinjiang and Central Asian countries. Horgos Port is an important window for Xinjiang to open to the outside world. It is one of the three ports that Xinjiang is currently open to third countries, along with the Hongqilafu port on the border between China and Pakistan in southern Xinjiang and Alashankou port in northern Xinjiang.

The port shall set up a management committee with sound inspection institutions. In the port area, there are joint inspection offices, office buildings, banks, post and telecommunications departments and other buildings, covering an area of 298,000 square meters, warehouses, freight yards122,000 square meters, and border trade markets100,000 square meters. There are 45 permanent organs and units and more than 2,500 offices and enterprises.

Horgos Port has a planned area of 12.5 square kilometers and a built-up area of 4.58 square kilometers. The scale of construction land shall be controlled within 4. 17 square kilometers on schedule and within 6 square kilometers in the long term. The nature of the city has changed from the border trade in the past to a border land-based city with commerce, shopping, tourism, product processing and cargo transfer as the mainstay, integrating trade, processing, warehousing, tourism and municipal administration. It is a foreign trade zone open to Central Asia and Europe in Xinjiang, and a demonstration experimental zone for the reform and opening up in Yili Prefecture.

The overall layout of the town consists of five areas: port center area, border area, goods transit reserve area, product processing industrial area and residential area. Reserve urban land such as urban transportation and urban greening. The largest land port in northwest China. Located in the west of 62 Tuanchang, Huocheng County. It is 50 kilometers away from the county seat and 350 kilometers away from Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan. It is the westernmost terminal of National Highway 3 12. Horgos Port on the Sino-Kazakhstan border in the west of Huocheng County is a kind of trade port opened between China and Kazakhstan. In recent years, sightseeing, shopping and tourism activities in the port are quite developed. The port of Horgos is named after the river.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, this was the post station on the northern Silk Road. In the early years of Qing Dynasty, it was also the garrison of China, and it was one of the six Karen garrisoned by Solon Camp in Yili. During the Tongzhi period, after the demarcation between China and Russia, it became a frontier post, formerly known as Ni Kan Card. "Xinjiang Atlas" contains: "Ni Kan Kelun, on the east bank of the river, stationed in the inspection Committee I, guarding the whistle I, and the west bank belongs to Russia, with Russian cards." Yili in history is a traditional free trade zone, and Central Asian countries mainly trade with China in the form of non-governmental trade. At that time, Sino-Russian trade was mainly Russian tea and Russian cotton, wool, leather and metal products.

185 1 year, representatives of China and Russia signed the Talbahatai Trade Regulations in Yili, officially opening the two ports of Yili and Tacheng, and Horgos was designated as one of the Sino-Russian trade routes. 188 1 year, after the signing of the Sino-Russian Ili Amendment Treaty, it was stipulated that the trade within the border of the two countries 100 was not taxed, and the trade expanded to Xinjiang and the mainland, which also became a stop for business travel between the two countries. After the October Revolution, the commercial relationship between Xinjiang and the Soviet Union was once interrupted. 192 1 year, the Tashkent Soviet government sent representatives to Xinjiang authorities to request the temporary resumption of trade between the two countries. 1920 On May 27th, the Xinjiang provincial government and the Soviet Union signed "Ili Temporary Local Trade Terms" (also known as "Ili Conference Finalization"). The two sides set up business negotiation offices in Yining and Almaty respectively, and stipulated that all import and export goods should pass through Ni Kan Card (namely Horgos), and Ni Kan Card became the most important foreign trade channel in Xinjiang at that time. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Ni Kan Card was officially renamed as Horgos Port, and the foreign trade between the two sides has been completely nationalized. Because of its superior geographical location, Horgos Port has become the largest port in the western part of Sino-Soviet trade.

1950 to 1962, Horgos port and Sandaohezi port played a very important role, and the import and export materials of both sides mainly transited through Yili. After 1962, due to the tension between China and the Soviet Union, the import and export volume of Horgos dropped sharply, and it was basically closed to 1967. At 1983, as a trade port with the Soviet Union, Horgos was opened for the first time, and this trade port, which had been silent for nearly 20 years, was revived. After the resumption of customs clearance, Khorgos Port has become an important window for Xinjiang to open to the west and the largest port for land trade between China and Kazakhstan. With the development of foreign trade, Horgos Port has gradually become a unique border town. At present, the port construction has begun to take shape, including frontier inspection stations, customs, health quarantine, animal and plant quarantine, commodity inspection, posts and telecommunications, banks, television stations, hotels and other supporting facilities, as well as the establishment of a border and people's mutual urban area approved by the State Council in July. 1992. Another scenic spot in the port is the national gate and boundary markers. The national gate, which symbolizes the sovereignty of the people and the state of China, is about 50 meters away from the boundary pillar, and is engraved with the word "China" and the exquisite national emblem. A bridge next to the boundary pillar is the border between the two countries. China and Kazakhstan are linked by mountains and rivers, and there are many relatives between the two peoples. After the opening of Horgos Port, personnel exchanges between the two countries have been increasing.

At the beginning of 1989, the international shuttle bus from Yining, China to panfilov, Kazakhstan was opened at Horgos Port, which was open to third countries. It is another window for Xinjiang to open to West Asian and European countries, and it has also become a tourist hotspot along the ancient Silk Road, which has aroused great interest from international tourism organizations. The "Oriental Train" Silk Road Tour Group sponsored by European and American countries entered China from Horgos Port on June 1985+00, attracting many international friends.