大力推进城镇化建设。在中央和自治区的统一领导和规划下，兵团以人口分布、土地利用空间为重点，统筹产业布局和城镇布局，按照“师市合一、团镇合一”的原则和师建城市、团场建镇的思路，大力推进城镇化进程。截至目前，兵团已建成阿拉尔市、铁门关市、图木舒克市、双河市、五家渠市、石河子市、北屯市等7个县级市和金银川镇、草湖镇、梧桐镇、蔡家湖镇、北泉镇等5个建制镇，初步形成以城市、垦区中心城镇、一般团场城镇、中心连队居住区为发展架构，与新疆城镇职能互补，具有兵团特色的城镇体系，城镇化率已达62.3%。城镇基础设施明显改善，公共服务设施不断完备，城镇规划、建设、管理、服务水平显著提高。兵团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、文化、教育、医疗卫生等资源的集聚之地，推进了新疆城镇化进程。石河子市2000年被联合国评为人类居住环境改善良好范例城市，2002年被正式命名为国家园林城市。

　　大力推进新型工业化建设。兵团的工业从农副产品加工业起步，逐步形成以轻工、纺织为主，钢铁、煤炭、建材、电力、化工、机械等多门类的工业体系，为新疆现代工业发展奠定了基础。21世纪初国家实施西部大开发战略以来，兵团立足新疆资源和地缘优势，形成了食品医药、纺织服装、氯碱化工和煤化工、特色矿产资源加工、石油天然气化工、新型建材和装备制造等支柱产业。由兵团生产的节水灌溉器材、番茄制品、棉纺锭等产量和规模名列全国前茅。2013年，兵团实现工业增加值426.61亿元人民币，比上年增长27.8%，占兵团生产总值的28.5%，工业对兵团生产总值的贡献率达45.3%。

Vigorously promote urbanization. Under the unified leadership and planning of the central government and Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the XPCC, with population distribution and land utilization as the focus, coordinates industry and city/town layouts to promote urbanization under the principle of divisions supporting the construction of cities and regiments supporting the construction of towns. Up to now, the XPCC has built the seven county-level cities of Alar, Tiemenguan, Tumushuke, Shuanghe, Wujiaqu, Shihezi and Beitun, and the five administrative towns of Jinyinchuan, Caohu, Wutong, Caijiahu and Beiquan, so forming an urban layout with cities at the center, surrounded by towns in reclamation areas, towns built on farmland by regiments, and company residence zones. As an urban complex with Corps characteristics, they complement the function of local cities and towns. The XPCC's urbanization rate has reached 62.3%. Its urban infrastructure has markedly improved, public service facilities have been steadily completed, and urban planning, construction, management, and service levels significantly enhanced. This urban complex has gradually become a regional economic and cultural center, and a population, capital, industry, human resource, culture, education and medical and health resource hub, so boosting Xinjiang's urbanization process. The UN rated Shihezi in the year 2000 as the Model City for Betterment of Residential Environment and in 2002 the state designated it as a National Garden City.

Vigorously promote new industrialization. Having started from the processing of farm and sideline products, the XPCC has gradually formed an industrial system that features the dominant role of textiles and light industry but also encompasses iron and steel, coal, building materials, electricity, chemical engineering, and machinery production, so laying a solid foundation for Xinjiang's modern industrialization. Since the adoption of the Western Development Strategy at the beginning of the 21st century, the XPCC has developed pillar industries, such as food and pharmaceuticals, textiles and garments, chemical industry in chlorine, alkali and coal, special mineral resource processing, petrochemicals, new building materials, and equipment manufacturing. It leads the country in both output and production scale of water-saving irrigation equipment, tomato products, and cotton textile spindles. In 2013 the XPCC's industrial added value was RMB 42.661 billion, an increase of 27.8% over the previous year, accounting for 28.5% of the Corps' total output value. The contribution ratio of industry to its total output value stood at 45.3%.