60多年来，几代兵团人发扬“热爱祖国、无私奉献、艰苦创业、开拓进取”的兵团精神，白手起家，艰苦奋斗，把亘古荒漠改造成生态绿洲，开创了新疆现代化事业，建成了规模化大农业，兴办大型工矿企业，建起了一座座新型城镇。兵团为推动新疆发展、增进民族团结、维护社会稳定、巩固国家边防做出了不可磨灭的历史贡献。

　　兵团对新疆发展进步发挥重要推动作用。兵团从建农场起步，依靠勤俭节约、艰苦创业积累的建设资金和生活资金，开矿山，建工厂，修公路，办商贸，兴办科教、文化、卫生事业。兵团创办的农牧团场和所属企业，生产所得不仅满足了自身的需求，还依法向地方政府纳税，并先后无偿地为地方规划建设了一批交通水利工程和工矿企业。为支持新疆工业发展，兵团还把已经建设起来的规模较大的一批工交建商企业移交地方，为自治区的现代化建设做出了重要贡献。兵团自组建以来，建成了阿拉尔市、铁门关市、图木舒克市、可克达拉市、双河市、五家渠市、石河子市、北屯市等8个城市和金银川镇、草湖镇、梧桐镇、蔡家湖镇、北泉镇、石河子镇等6个建制镇，以及一大批新兴团场城镇，促进了新疆城镇化的发展。

Inspired by the XPCC spirit of "loving the motherland, selfless devotion, hard work, and forging ahead with pioneering endeavors," over the past six decades the XPCC workers have, generation after generation, made strenuous efforts to turn the desolate Gobi wilderness from time immemorial into ecological oases, initiate Xinjiang's cause of modernization, build one after another large farms and industrial and mining enterprises, and establish quite a number of new cities and towns. The XPCC has made an indelible contribution to the development of Xinjiang by promoting unity among all the ethnic groups, maintaining social stability and consolidating border defenses.

The XPCC has played an important driving role for the development and progress of Xinjiang. Starting with establishing farms by reclaiming wastelands, the XPCC expanded its activities to running mines, building factories and roads, developing commerce and trade, and initiating undertakings in science, education, culture and healthcare with funds for construction and life it had accumulated by way of working hard and practicing economy. Its regimental agricultural and stock raising farms and subordinating enterprises not only have provided for their own needs, but also have paid taxes to the local governments in accordance with the law, in addition to planning and building in succession quite a number of transport and hydropower projects as well as industrial and mining enterprises for the local governments, for free. To support Xinjiang' s industrial development, the XPCC has also transferred to the local governments, at no cost, a number of large-scale industrial, construction, transport, and commercial enterprises it had developed, making an important contribution to the modernization of the region. Since its founding, the XPCC has built eight county-level cities of Alar, Tiemenguan, Tumushuke, Kekedala, Shuanghe, Wujiaqu, Shihezi and Beitun, six administrative towns of Jinyinchuan, Caohu, Wutong, Caijiahu, Beiquan and Shihezi, and a large number of smaller towns on the regimental farms, facilitating the urbanization process in Xinjiang.