Hami attracting large-scale projects

Xinjiang city's rich natural resources get close attention from investors

As a number of high-tech and large-scale projects in emerging sectors are taking shape, Hami in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region is harnessing its abundant natural resources to spearhead an industrial transformation driven by new growth engines.

Situated in the foothills of the eastern Tianshan Mountains, Hami boasts abundant wind and solar resources. However, despite its status as a key new energy hub in eastern Xinjiang, the region lacked a photovoltaic silicon industry until recently, as a monocrystalline silicon wafer production project has entered the commissioning phase.

With an annual production capacity of 60,000 metric tons of industrial silicon already established, the first phase of the monocrystalline silicon wafer production project, which includes 10 gigawatts of production capacity, is currently in trial operations, said Qingdian Silicon Industry Co Ltd, the project's operator.