乾隆时期,新疆伊犁九城的构建作为"边防与屯政相维"治理方针具体体现,从地理位置上,伊犁九城构成了新疆稳定的核心区及维系西北边疆,发挥着政治控制、军事防御及带动"屯城"经济发展的功能,对新疆社会的稳定与区域发展发挥了不可替代的作用。近代以来,由于西北边地多失,伊犁九城由核心区成为边地,其城市原有的多项功能无法持续发展,新疆的城市核心功能区遂东移。
The establishment of Yili Nine towns in the Qianlong period had been reflected in governance policies of border defense and tunken.From the geographical point of view,the establishment of Yili Nine towns constituted a stable and efficient core zone and marginal zone which affected by the core area.Yili Nine towns played the main functions of political control and military defense,which droved its own development.Yili Nine towns had played an irreplaceable role in Xinjiang’s social stability and regional development.Yili Nine towns were changed into the marginal zone and lost the function of the core area because of northwest frontier territory to be lost in the northwest modern society,so Dihua(Urumchi) replaced of Yili to become the core zone of Xinjiang’s.