Xinjiang Cotton Began Picking &Nbsp; Millions Of "Migratory Birds" Cotton Fields Panning For Gold.

　 It is also the year of picking cotton, and Xinjiang has "flying" nearly one million. Picking cotton The "migratory birds". They will work in cotton fields in Xinjiang for more than 40 days before returning to the mainland. 。

Zhang Yufen, from Xuchang, Henan, came to Xinjiang for the first time this year as a "migratory bird". In September 12th, she picked cotton from a farmer's cotton field in Hami modern agriculture park. She told the News Agency reporters that people in Xinjiang heard that they could earn a lot of money from cotton picking, and picked up cotton with more than ten partners.

The cotton picking workers formed a seasonal labor force and marched on the line of thousands of miles of Longhai.

As the main cotton producing area in China, Xinjiang needs a large number of flower pickups every year, especially the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps. The demand for Xinjiang production and Construction Corps is even greater. Only 500 thousand corps of flower pickup workers were introduced this year, of which nearly 60% came from the provinces and cities in the mainland.

It is reported that in 2010, Xinjiang's cotton planting area was 21 million 980 thousand mu, an increase of 840 thousand mu, an increase of 3.97% over that of last year. Local cotton The sown area is 14 million 169 thousand and 200 mu, an increase of 1 million 24 thousand and 100 mu over the previous year. The increase is mainly in the southern Xinjiang area. The Xinjiang Corps has sown area of 7 million 13 thousand mu, which is 305 thousand mu less than that of last year.

Reporters found that since August, Henan, Gansu, Shandong, Sichuan and other places picking cotton workers began to train to Xinjiang. Due to the serious impact of weather factors on cotton in Xinjiang this year, the picking period of cotton in southern Xinjiang has been delayed for about 10 days, and the cotton picking period in the northern region has been delayed for about 20 days.

In order to ensure the safety of the cotton picking workers in Xinjiang, the railway spanportation departments, the provinces and cities picking up cotton workers, all the states in Xinjiang and the Xinjiang Corps actively respond to this seasonal round trip. Migratory birds " Zhou Bo, director of Korla Railway Station police station, told reporters that the number of pick up workers is quite high now. To ensure that the pick up workers are out of the station smoothly, the station police station has sent 10 policemen to various posts in the station so that they can go out orderly and arrive at their destinations in an orderly manner.