🌍 外方院校:乌兹别克斯坦国家研究型大学塔什干灌溉与农业机械学院

The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (XPCC), also known as Bingtuan, trading with the external name China Xinjian Group, is a state-owned enterprise and paramilitary organization in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The XPCC was established in 1954 under the orders of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, and developed sparsely populated areas in its early decades, taking the model of the traditional tuntian system of setting military units in frontier areas. The XPCC was severely damaged during the Cultural Revolution, and was outright abolished in 1975, before being re-established in 1981, partly due to the Soviet–Afghan War. It re-established its economic dominance over Xinjiang afterwards, also being responsible for maintenance against the "three evils" (separatism, religious extremism, and terrorism). In its history, the XPCC has built farms, towns, and cities, provided land and employment to disbanded military units, and re-settled Han migrants from other parts of China in what has been called a campaign of assimilation and Sinicization of the local Uyghur population. The XPCC is under both the Central People's Government and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Regional People's Government, headed by the Chinese Communist Party committee secretary of Xinjiang. XPCC's own CCP committee secretary typically concurrently serves as its political commissar and acts as its highest day-to-day authority, and is considered to be the second mos