Urastai Port in Changji

The most detailed information of border port in Xinjiang, what you want to know is following:

Recent years, as the most important passageway in ancient Silk Road, Xinjiang become the focus in people’ s mind once again because of the influence of “Belt and Road”. Xinjiang, not only have majestic scenery, cuisine, folklore with different style, but also have the largest area, the longest border line with a number of bordering countries and land port. Boarding 8 countries, with more than 5600 kilometers of long border line, there are more than a dozen external land ports. It is pity that you don’t have a travel the land port and know about it when you in Xinjaing.

Changji

You must have never thought that there is also a border port in Changji . 

Urastai Port (China and Mongolia)

Many people don’t know there are a border road port in Changji. This is the Ulastai port. Urastai means poplar trees in Mongolian. The port is located in Beitashan Ranch, about 250 kilometers far from the north of the Qitai County, bordering the Mongolia.

On 24 June, 1991, the Chinese and Mongolian governments signed an agreement in Beijing to approve the opening of the Sino-Mongolian border port of Changshu Prefecture: Urastai Port - Beitag Port, which is a national first-class bilateral seasonal open port. On 1992, it is officially opened .

Starting from January 2005, the Urastai Port is open to the port on the 16th to 30th of each year in March, May and September, and is closed for 45 days a year. Residents in the border areas of the two countries can pass the port with border passes.