On August 25, 2017, the Senate of the Oliy Majlis of the Republic of Uzbekistan at its plenary session decided to rename the city of Toytepa to Nurafshon.

Important cotton processing enterprises exist in Nurafshon, mostly due to Uzbek-South Korean joint ventures.

The city has an aluminum ore processing plant, a garment factory,[5] trucking companies, and manufacturing industries.

There is also a general secondary school No.48 (formerly named after A. P. Gaidar, located on Toshkent Yoli Street), which also has Russian and Uzbek classes.

On the western outskirts of the city (on the road Nurafshon - Tuyaboʻgʻiz) is located Ulkantoytepe settlement, which was severely destroyed as a result of the deployment of a military unit there during the Soviet era.

Described by eastern geographers in the X-XII centuries A.D. in the Kara-Khanid era, it was for a certain time the capital of the Ilaq domain, which had its own mint.