The town of Huiyuan (simplified Chinese: 惠远镇; traditional Chinese: 惠遠鎮; pinyin: Huìyuǎn Zhèn; Uyghur: كۈرە بازىرى) is located within Huocheng County, in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, China.

The Russians left pursuant to the 1881 Treaty of Saint Petersburg (1881), and in 1882 the military-administrative center moved to Suiding (now known as Shuiding), some 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) north of the river, while a new Huiyuan fortress and the adjunct military-administrative town were rebuilt near the center of modern Huiyuan about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of the river.

The headquarter of the General of Ili moved back to the new Huiyuan fort in 1894 after the construction completed.

While Kuldja (now Yining) remained the commercial center of the region throughout, Huiyuan (and then its successor Suiding) acquired a great deal of importance from their fortifications and the Chinese administration based there.

[2] James A. Millward, writing in 1998, said that the only surviving remains of the Qing era structures were a drum tower and a section of the wall that used to enclose the Jiangjun's yamen.