Specialties of Xinjiang include: Xinjiang grapes, special Hami jujubes, special Xinjiang raisins, Hetian jujubes, smoked horse intestines, superb pine seeds, poplar old cellar, flying geese, sour milk, garden peaches and so on.
Xinjiang grapes all over the world, especially in Turpan grape groove grapes the most prestigious, the western region has been growing grapes for more than two thousand years of history. Fire Island is known as the "cool world" - Grape Gully, located in the Flaming Mountain Canyon, 13 kilometers northeast of Turpan City.
3. Hami melon in Xinjiang has more than 2,000 years of cultivation history, known as "the world's first melon", its flesh color like crystal jade, unique flavor, excellent quality, best-selling at home and abroad. Hami melon, color, aroma, taste are excellent, melon flesh fat, sweet and crisp, high sugar content (the highest up to 21%), "color yellow bright as satin", "melon ripe to the mouth that is melted, no dregs". Hami melon crunchy juice, sweet but not greasy.
4. The history of Hami jujube has been more than two thousand years, ancient called "fragrant jujube". Tang Taizong Li Shimin tasted Hami jujube imperial seal for "tribute jujube", from then on to become the royal tribute. Hami jujube can be used in medicine, traditional Chinese medicine called "white benefit red", "the main law and order to raise the spleen, calm the stomach, long service light body prolonged life" of the efficacy.
5. Xinjiang special raisins production: raisins are dried in the sun or in the shade of the fruit of the grapes, do raisins must be mature fruit, raisins within the water content of only 15-25%, its fructose content of up to 60%, raisins can be preserved for a long time.
6. Xinjiang hetian jujube fruit shape, full of particles, thick flesh, thin skin, small nucleus, rich in nutrients, taste more sweet mellow, each "hetian jujube" is the crystallization of the essence of nature, and hetian jujube from the hetian region of xinjiang, jujube green food base, the product of excellent quality.
7. Xinjiang Ili smoked horse meat and smoked horse intestines is the Kazakh winter food, the end of November to December each year, is the Kazakh herdsmen smoked meat season, they are at this time, to select some fat cattle, horses, sheep slaughtered for winter consumption.
8. Superb pine seeds features: pine nuts are the fruit of the red pine tree, also known as the sea pine nuts. Pine nuts contain fat, protein, carbohydrates, etc. Pine nuts are both important traditional Chinese medicine, long food fitness heart, moisturize the skin, prolong life.
9. Baiyang old cellar is the fist product of Shihezi Bayi Winery, which is not only loved by the people of Shihezi, but is also an indispensable necessity for the joyous feasts of the people of all ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
10. Tacheng flying geese, also known as grass geese, large, adult male geese weighing more than 5 kilograms, female geese 3-4 kilograms, to grass for food, bran in winter, vegetables, foraging ability, after the fall, can be in groups to fly to the several kilometers or even more than 10 kilometers of agricultural stubble for food, early and late return, do not need to be supervised.
11. Sour milk is China's Xinjiang and other ethnic minorities called, in fact, is sour milk, it is fresh milk as raw materials, after pasteurization and then add beneficial bacteria to the milk, after hair alcohol, and then cooled a milk product.
12. Garden Peach in 45 kilometers from Shihezi 143rd Corps, Wuyi Highway South, Shinan Highway West, is located in a "peach township" known as the Peach Garden.
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, referred to as the new, the ancient name of the Western Region, is located in the northwest frontier of China, the capital of Urumqi, is one of China's five ethnic minority autonomous regions, but also China's largest land area of provincial-level administrative regions, covering an area of 1.66 million square kilometers, accounting for one-sixth of China's total land area.