Alar, a county-level city directly under the Central Government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and the first division of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps implement the division and city integration management system, which is managed by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Alar City, the first division, is located in the Aksu region of Xinjiang, starting from the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains in the north and the northern edge of the Taklimakan Desert in the south. Its geographical location is between 80 ° 30 ′ E and 81 ° 58 ′ E and 40 ° 22 ′ N and 40 ° 57 ′ N. The distance between the east and the west is 281 kilometers, and the distance between the north and the south is 180 kilometers. The area of Alar City is 6923.4 square kilometers. Aral, the first division, has an extremely continental arid desert climate in the warm temperate zone. By 2020, Alar has jurisdiction over 3 streets, 15 towns and 1 township, and the municipal government is located in Jinyinchuan Road Street. In 2021, the total population of the area will be 438600, accounting for about 41% of the South Xinjiang Corps.

In the second year of Shenjue in the Western Han Dynasty (60 BC), it was the capital of the Western Regions. In the seventeenth year of the Republic of China (1928), it belonged to Aksu Administrative Region. In the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), it was the fourth administrative supervision region of Xinjiang. In September 2002, the State Council approved the establishment of the autonomous region's county-level municipality, Alar City, in the largest Alar reclamation area of the First Agricultural Division of the Corps, and implemented the "division city integration" management system with the First Agricultural Division. There are national highways 217, 314 and provincial highways 207, 210 and 309 in Alar City of the First Division, where Yu'a Highway, Ata Highway, Atu Highway, Ahe Highway and Asha Highway meet. In October 2020, it was rated as a national model city (county) for mutual support.

In 2020, the gross domestic product of Alar was 33.2 billion yuan, up 6.2% from the previous year. The added value of the primary industry was 14.52 billion yuan, up 9.8%; The added value of the secondary industry was 7.12 billion yuan, up 5.8%; The added value of the tertiary industry was 11.56 billion yuan, up 1.3%. The added value of the three industries accounted for 43.7%, 21.5% and 34.8% of GDP respectively. In 2021, the gross domestic product will reach 37.5 billion yuan, accounting for about 44% of the South Xinjiang Corps.