Editing Turpan (section)

== Economy ==
[[File:Turpan-calles-d01.jpg|thumb|left|Youth Road (QingNianLu), a Turpan street shaded by grapevine trellises]]

Turpan is an agricultural economy growing vegetables, cotton, and especially grapes being China's largest raisin producing area.<ref name="grape">{{cite web|title=China, People's Republic of Dried Fruit Annual 2007|url=http://apps.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200811/146306444.pdf|website=Global Agriculture Information Network|publisher=USDA Foreign Agricultural Service}}</ref> There is a steady increase in farming acreage devoted to grapes backed by strong local government support for increased production.<ref name="grape"/> The local government has coordinated improvements in raisin distribution, offered preferential loans for grape cultivation, and free management training to growers.<ref name="grape"/> The annual Turpan Grape festival includes a mass wedding of Uyghurs funded by the government.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.farwestchina.com/2014/08/day-ran-across-mass-uyghur-wedding-turpan.html |title=The Day I Ran Across a Mass Uyghur Wedding in Turpan |last=Summers  |first=Josh |date=22 August 2014 |website=Far West China }}</ref>