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Ürümqi, China
Xinjiang Academy of Social Sciences
شىنجاڭ ئىجتىمائىي پەنلەر ئاكادېمىيىسى
The federation's centre for strategic resources and technology in the Eurasian interior: critical minerals, energy corridors, water allocation, and the industrial technologies that move them.
ئۈرۈمچى، شىنجاڭ — Ürümqi, Xinjiang
- Established
- 2016
- Programs & centers
- 6
- Years of field record
- 10
- Archive closed
- 2026
Institutional profile maintained by the foundation. XJASS is independent of Chinese state and Party research institutes and has never been a government body.
Mandate
What the academy does
- Map the extraction, processing and transit of critical minerals across the Eurasian interior
- Track energy corridor development and its effect on regional bargaining power
- Study water allocation across transboundary basins as a strategic resource question
- Assess industrial and logistics technologies that determine who captures resource value
Foundation
Founded in 2016 as an independent, privately endowed research branch of the federation, established to study the resource geography of the Eurasian interior at a moment when the region's minerals, pipelines and rail corridors were being redrawn.
Structure
Programs & centers
- Program on Critical Minerals & Processing
- Program on Energy Corridors
- Program on Transboundary Water
- Program on Industrial & Logistics Technology
- Central Eurasia Regional Center
- Resource Data & Measurement Unit
Publications
- Interior Resource Review — the branch's flagship analytical series (suspended)
- Corridor Briefs — short-form analysis of pipeline, rail and dry-port development
Facilities & centres
- Resource Data & Measurement Unit, holding the branch's field and satellite-derived datasets
- Corridor observation programme with recorded site surveys along the northern and southern routes
- Reading room and working-paper archive, now held in trust by the foundation
Specialisms
- Critical minerals
- Energy corridors
- Transboundary water
- Industrial technology