兵团对维稳戍边发挥特殊作用。兵团始终坚持亦兵亦民、劳武结合、兵民合一，一手抓劳动生产，一手抓军事训练，58个边境团场的数十万职工守卫着祖国2000多公里的边境线，保卫中国西北边防的安全。面对新疆严峻复杂的社会稳定形势，兵团所属师、团和企事业单位建立了应急民兵队伍，为新疆社会稳定、打击暴力恐怖犯罪、维护人民安宁发挥了不可替代的特殊作用。

　　组建兵团、支持兵团、发展兵团，是中国政府治国安邦的战略布局和强化国家边疆治理的重要方略，也是维护新疆稳定、维护民族团结、维护国家统一、开发建设边疆的重大制度创新，是中央支援地方、内地支援边疆、各民族相互支援的有效形式。经过几十年的建设，兵团城市和团场城镇已经逐步发展为区域的经济和文化中心，成为人口、资金、产业、人才、教育、医疗卫生等资源的集聚之地。兵团始终坚持国家利益就是兵团利益、新疆大局就是兵团大局，始终是开发建设新疆、造福各族人民的一支重要力量，始终是维护祖国统一、保持新疆稳定的一支重要力量，始终得到了自治区各级政府和各族人民的支持帮助。新形势下，围绕新疆社会稳定和长治久安总目标，兵团充分发挥调节社会结构、推动文化交流、促进区域协调的作用，进一步壮大综合实力，深化“兵地融合”发展，努力为新疆的发展进步与和谐稳定做出更大贡献。

The XPCC workers live in peace and harmony as neighbors with people of various ethnic groups in Xinjiang; they share mutual support and assistance. The Corps has provided various public services not only to its workers, but also to the local people, attracting people from all ethnic groups of Xinjiang and various other parts of the country to work, study, seek medical care, and start businesses in the XPCC, thus promoting ethnic unity, unity between the Corps and local governments, and integrative development of both XPCC and the local society, facilitating the formation of interwoven social development model for Xinjiang's ethnic groups and laying down the social foundation for these ethnic groups to communicate and integrate. During the process of creating the unique XPCC culture, the Corps makes a due contribution to enriching the local cultures of Xinjiang by promoting cultural exchanges among the different peoples and enhancing their identity with the Chinese culture that features integrated diversity.

The XPCC has played a unique role in maintaining stability and defending border area. Always upholding principles of being both soldiers and civilians, and combining productive labor with military duties and the army with the people, the Corps has paid equal attention to productive work and military training; the hundreds of thousands of XPCC workers from 58 border regimental farms have guarded a 2,000-km section of China's borderlines to ensure the security of China' s northwestern borders. In the face of severe and complex threats to social stability in Xinjiang, the various divisions, regiments, companies, enterprises and public institutions under the XPCC have established an emergency-response militia contingent. The XPCC has played a unique and irreplaceable role in maintaining social stability in Xinjiang, quashing violent terrorist activities and safeguarding the public.

It is the Chinese government's strategic plan to administer state affairs and ensure national stability and an important strategy to strengthen frontier governance to form, support and develop the XPCC; it is a major institutional innovation in maintaining stability in Xinjiang, safeguarding ethnic unity and national unification, and developing the border area; and it is an effective mechanism for the central government to support the localities, the more developed inland areas to support border areas, and the various ethnic groups to render mutual assistance. After decades of development, XPCC-built cities and regiment-built towns have gradually developed into the regional economic and cultural hubs, where all sorts of resources converge - population, capital, industry, talent, education and healthcare.

Upholding the national interests as its own interests and overall situation of Xinjiang its foremost concern, the XPCC has remained a key force in developing and building Xinjiang and bringing benefits to people of all its ethnic groups, as well as in safeguarding national unification and maintaining stability in Xinjiang. As such, it has always enjoyed support and help from the region's governments at all levels and the people of all the ethnic groups. In view of the new conditions and prioritizing the overall goal of lasting stability and peace in Xinjiang, the XPCC will give full play to its role in adjusting the social structure, promoting cultural exchange and facilitating inter-district coordination, further boost its strength, deepen XPCC-Xinjiang integrative development, and endeavor to make still greater contributions to the development, progress, harmony and stability of Xinjiang.