Implementation of the «partner assistance» policy in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China

This article examines the history of the implementation of the economic policy of «partner assistance» in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. The research materials included statistical data on the socio-economic development of the XUAR and the PRC, as well as press releases from Chinese government agencies, including the White Paper of the State Council of the PRC and official materials from the State Committee for Ethnic Affairs. In addition, this research is based on the work of Chinese scientists in the fields of history, sociology and economics. The paper describes the prerequisites, milestones, content aspects and results of «partner assistance» to Xinjiang from the developed eastern provinces of China. Initially, this program was aimed at increasing the level of socio-economic development of Xinjiang, which was a borderline, backward, troubled region inhabited by representatives of national minorities. Over the past three decades, the program has demonstrated very good performance and proved its effectiveness. Despite a number of problems, «partner assistance» corresponds not only to the economic interests of provinces and private corporations, but also to the national strategy for maintaining stability on the national outskirts of the PRC. The conducted research has shown that the policy of «partner assistance» is currently a permanent phenomenon and one of the most effective tools for implementing the national policy of the central Government of the People's Republic of China in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.