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简介：ThemineralresourcesexploitationstageandtheeconomicgrowthratearevariousindifferentregionsofXinjiangAutonomousregion.Usingthemethodoflocationquotient,thispaperidentifiesandclassifiestheintensiveregionsofthreetypesofmineralresources,knownascoal,oilandnaturalgas,respectively.Theintensiveregionsofeconomicgrowthwerealsoidentified,accordingtotherateofpercapitaGDPgrowthatprefecture,autonomousprefectureandcity.Therelationshipsbetweendifferentmineralresourcesandeconomicgrowtharedifferent,forexample,therelationshipbetweeneconomicgrowthandcoalresourceispositive,whiletherelationshipbetweeneconomicgrowthandoilresource,ornaturalgasresourceisnegative.ThisstudyempiricallyexaminestheeffectsofnaturalresourcesoneconomicgrowthofXinjiang.Theresultsshowthatwhilstnaturalresourceshaveapositiveimpactongrowth,andcanmakeanegativeimpactongrowththroughthetransmissionchannels,suchasinvestment,manufacture,humancapital,andscientificandtechnologicinnovation.Moreover,itstudiesthetransmissionchannels,thatis,theeffectofnaturalresourcesontheotherexplanatoryvariables,andcalculatestheindirecteffectofnaturalresourcesongrowthforeachtransmissionchannel,andcomprehensiveeffectsofnaturalresourcesongrowth.ThecalculatedresultofcomprehensiveeffectsindicatesthatthepositivedirecteffectsofnaturalresourcesongrowthareshowntooutweighthenegativeindirecteffectofXinjiangautonomousregion.