Huoerguosi Port is in Huocheng County, border­ing Alamutu Prefecture in Kazakhstan. It is 56 miles from Yining, the capital city of Yili Kazak Autonomous Prefecture and more than 400 miles from Urumqi. The  "New Silk Road" freeway, begun in August 2006, con­nects Xinjiang with the port and so far has the largest amount of traffic in West China. There is an enormous market for Chinese and Ka­zak inhabitants of border areas to trade at the port. with its 6,500 residents and a daily floating population of around ten thousand. The port imports and exports 500,000 tons of goods a year on average. Huoerguosi Port is in the middle of the second Eurasia Continental Bridge. It is richly endowed with diversity in geography, eth­nicity, languages, and cus­toms. Transit trade through the port with Europe has the advantage of shorter dis­tances, lower expenses, and shorter turnover time. With the deepening of China's reform and the implementa­tion of the strategy of devel­oping the West, Huoerguosi will become an important corridor linking China's six eastern provinces with the rest of the world.