As a sort of industrial special organization form for creating competitive advantages, industrial clusters have advantages of clustering competitive and scale benefit that no other forms can compare. With the economic globalization, industrial clustering has become the economic trend of the globalism and the basic spatial skeleton. It had been practically proved by home and abroad that the industrial clusters are the effective way to promote regional economic competitiveness and regarded as new stars of the regional development.Western Development strategy has brought unprecedented opportunity for Xinjiang. Being an important role in Western Development, Xinjiang should seize the opportunity to develop its economy. Since the application of economic integration of Urumqi and changji by Xinjiang autonomous region party committee and people's government, Wuchang Zone has been developing continually fast for taking full advantage of its leading role. However, many problems arose in the process of economic integration, such as unreasonable industrial structure, the low quality of the economy as a whole and growth level and the weakness of independent innovative etc. This paper implements two approaches including LQ and CRn to identify industrial clusters in Wuchang Zone and conclude that industrial clusters are likely to exist in manufacture of electrical machinery and equipment, manufacture of metal products, mining and washing of coal, manufacture of food, manufacture of raw chemical materials and chemical products and manufacture of non-metallic mineral products. It exist some favorable factors as governmental support, predominant geographic location, comprehensive infrastructure, the growing-up of non-public ownership and adverse factors as government's excessive intervention, hindered industrial agglomeration, diffusion of central city in the development of Wuchang Zone and difficult integration of Xinjiang Production &Construction Group,local government and state-owned enterprises. We need to build up conception of boosting regional economic development with industrial cluster, improve the government role of adjusting cluster cultivation, foster competitive industrial clusters and adjust industrial organizations, only in this way can we promote the development of industrial clusters in Wuchang Zone. |