With superior geographical advantages and industrial policy, after more than 20 years of development in Xinjiang has become China's leading tomato production and processing region, production and sales accounted for more than 90% of the country, the production line is designed to deal with the raw material capacity of 55,000 tons per day, the products include tomato paste, peeled tomatoes, tomatoes, tomato dices, tomato powder, tomato juice, etc., which are mainly sauce products, with an annual output of nearly 650,000 tons of tomato products processing industry in Xinjiang in terms of production, quality, export volume and equipment level are located in the country's first, and has become the main characteristic of export-oriented products. Xinjiang tomato products processing industry in the output, quality, export volume and equipment level are located in the country's first, become Xinjiang's main characteristics of the export of foreign exchange-earning products, the total production capacity of the tomato products processing industry has reached 800,000 tons (500,000 tons of Tunhe, 300,000 tons of China-based), in 2007 the whole of the territory production of 548,000 tons of tomato products, accounting for more than 90% of the total amount of the country. At the same time, through the industrial structure adjustment and enterprise optimization and reorganization, the formation of Xinjiang Tunhe Investment Co., Ltd, Xinjiang Zhongji Co., Ltd, Xinjiang Tianye Processing Tomato Products Co., Ltd. three backbone enterprises. 2007, the whole territory directly exported 372,000 tons of tomato products.

In 2008, the total area planted with processing tomatoes in Xinjiang is about 60,000 hectares, and the total output of tomato paste is expected to reach 560,000 tons, of which 360,000 tons will be produced by Tunhe and 200,000 tons will be produced by Zhongji. On this basis, the tomato industry is developing in the direction of deep processing of products. 1998 Delong Group invested 200 million yuan, registered in the Urumqi Hi-tech Development Zone, Xinjiang Life Red Technology Investment and Development Co., Ltd. is a high-tech enterprise specializing in the development of Xinjiang's special resources. Since its inception, the Life Red Company, after bold exploration and attempts to a new organizational management model, in the processing of tomato series, safflower series, polysaccharide series and green Chinese herbal medicine series of product development has achieved promising results, in particular, has successfully developed a clear juice of tomato, tomato powder, lycopene capsules, as well as safflower yellow pigment, tomato dietary fiber, safflower capsules, polysaccharide capsules and other specialty products. Products. Tomato juice is a natural vegetable juice, belongs to the current beverage market is increasingly emerging natural health care drinks, life red company is currently with China's famous beverage companies on the integration of advantages for the production and sale of tomato juice drinks for consultation, according to the current development of the beverage market forecasts, plans to expand the production scale of tomato juice to 95,000 tons in two to three years. At the same time, the life of red company already has the first domestic self-designed production line of tomato powder, with patented technology and equipment, the use of spray, freeze-drying process, the annual output of 1500 tons of tomato powder, the product compared with foreign tomato powder, red color, taste pure, particles and biochemical indicators are in line with international standards.

Development goals: According to the autonomous region's "Tenth Five-Year Plan" and the 2010 planning, Xinjiang's output of processed tomato products will reach 580,000 tons in 2009, 2010 to reach 600,000 tons. In order to achieve this ambitious goal, the processed tomato industry will continue to adhere to the tomato paste processing as the main body, an appropriate amount of increase in other tomato product varieties, to promote the industry to the deep processing direction.