 With the approval of the government of the autonomous region and the Ministry of Civil Affairs in 1999, the "Beiquan Town Government" was formally established, the town was implemented a special management system with Shihezi Headquarters Farm for co-location work and named as Beiquan Town of Shihezi Headquarters Farm (), it is also the first administrative town directly managed by the Corps (XPCC).The total area of Shihezi Headquarters Farm is 475.76 square kilometers (including 195.2 square kilometers of Beiquan Town), and its cultivated land is 18,733 hectares.Within the jurisdiction, there are national "Agricultural High-tech Park" (), provincial-level "Beiquan Town Industrial Park" (), and the "8th Division Industrial Park of the Corps" ().