A country忆s natural resources and economic resources form the basis of its regional sustainable development. Based on an improved model of the relative carrying capacity of resources, we calculate the relative carrying capacity of the population and that of the economy in the Tarim River Basin in Xinjiang from 2000 to 2011. We also discuss the temporal evolution and the difference in characteristics of 42 prefectures and cities in the Tarim River Basin. Most of the data were collected from the Xinjiang Statistical Yearbook (2000 to 2012) , the Xinjiang City County Building Statistical Yearbook
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