Xinjiang region, a western frontier of the Qing Empire played a significant role throughout the history due to its geopolitical importance, although Xinjiang became a province within the empire only in 1755. The purpose of this work is discourse on the different administration and economy strategies promoted by the Qing government in Xinjiang between 1755 and 1884, when Xinjiang officially became a province of the Qing Empire. My work is built upon secondary literature on Chinese and Russian historiographies (Fairbank, 1978; Christian, 2018) on the one hand, and on the other hand on works written by Western historians on Inner Asia (Millward 2007; Lattimore 1976; Soucek 2000; Schorkowitz and Ning, 2017). Especially the latter refers to the Qing frontier policy in Xinjiang and to Lifanyuan – the Qing office for dealing with non-Han peoples. Furthermore, I work with the Chinese translation of Manchu texts concerning Xinjiang administration and finance (Wu, Hu and Liu, 2004) to provide specific details. Matching the specific strategy with parallel event, for instance the conquest of Dzunghar Khanate, the occupation of Ili by Russians, rule of Yaqub Beg in Kashgaria, etc. that expectedly had an impact on the specific approach of Qing dynasty towards Xinjiang, is crucial in order to get a coherent picture. Furthermore, the information obtained is chronologically organized to fit into the historical context. I assume that the situation in Xinjiang in the late period of Qing dynasty’s reign is an important foreplay in the development of their mutual relations; yet historians often capture the events of 18th and 19th century only negligibly. Consequently, this work is supposed to give the reader an insight on the initial endeavour of Qing’s control over Xinjiang and to explore the various approaches of Qing government towards dealing with the frontier area. Nonetheless, the scarce amount of comprehensive information about the topic is another reason to integrate the acquired knowledge into one compact work.