[1] Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Radio and Television was preceded by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Television Recording Centre (新疆生产建设兵团电视录制中心), which was established in early 1985.

The General Office of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps approved the establishment of Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps Radio and Television on 25 March 1994.

The Ministry of Radio, Film and Television of the People's Republic of China gave its approval on 19 July 1994.

[3] Its service covers 12 of Xinjiang's 14 prefectures, as well as the regional capital of Ürümqi.

[4] The channel also began routinely rebroadcasting CCTV-1, the primary channel of China Central Television, and cancelled several of its previously planned entertainment shows, which would have been produced in partnership with a production company in Beijing.