Yang Yiyong, director of the Institute of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission, believes that the visits to Xinjiang by the leaders of the four provinces and cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Liaoning and Zhejiang, as well as the intensive investigation of Xinjiang by the central authorities before, show that in addition to the central government's increased support for Xinjiang, other brother provinces and cities also have the responsibility to work with Xinjiang to speed up the development of the western region and let people of all ethnic groups share the important achievements of the country's reform and opening up.
Shi Gang, director of the Xinjiang Aid Office of the Organization Department of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Committee of the Communist Party of China, said: 1996, in order to promote the development and maintain the stability of Xinjiang, the central government made a major strategic decision to carry out aid work in Xinjiang. Since 1997, when the first batch of aid cadres stationed in Xinjiang, the central government has successively selected 6 batches of more than 3,700 aid cadres for Xinjiang. Over the past decade or so, the central government has provided Xinjiang with free aid funds and materials equivalent to 4.3 billion yuan, and implemented more than 200 cooperative projects in aid of Xinjiang, with more than 25 billion yuan in funds in place.