Xinjiang Cotton "Settle Accounts After The Autumn" And Carry Out The Last Battle Of "Selling Instead".

November 19th is unusual for Xinjiang people.

On this day, the national cotton price B index stopped at 28638 yuan / ton, 8.3% lower than last week, and the average price of Xinjiang grade three seed cotton purchase was 5.93 yuan / Jin, or 12.8%.

It is also from this day that most areas in Xinjiang welcome the first snow this year.

For cotton farmers, snow means the official conclusion of the autumn harvest. This is the harvest this year.

For all the subordinate regiments in Xinjiang, one year's work will be handed over to the final answer: how much cotton has been delivered and how much cotton prices have been cashed. These two figures are achievements.

With the early snow, Xinjiang cotton has ushered in the final critical period.

The last battle of "sell instead"

On the highway outside a regiment in Northern Xinjiang, snowflakes are flying and traffic is heavy.

The "selling supervisor" who should have patrolled the patrol on the road all hid in the car. Occasionally, when a large truck passed by, it jumped down in a hurry, raised the warning sign and asked to open the door to check the goods.

They have been on this road for more than two months.

Since September, in order to stop the "scalping", the Corps Public Security Bureau, pportation team, militia company, civil servants...

All the men who could take part in the battle were organized into "selling supervisor" instead of "500 meters, 2000 meters and a whistle" on the highway from the regiment to the local area.

More than two months of high intensity work has made this "part-time team" exhausted, and the temperature drop is even more painful for the "supervisor" standing in the snow.

Many "supervisors" frankly say that everyone has long ago not "vigorously guard against death card" the vigor, only hoped that the autumn harvest ends quickly, returns to normal work as soon as possible and the life.

Ma Yipeng, a traffic policeman, has been snoring in the car. He has been on duty in the downtown area during the day. He has checked the posts on the highway in the evening. He has not been in bed for more than a month.

In November 20th, there was a dozen private local farmers sitting in the box of a small restaurant not far away from the checkpoint. They were all large cotton farmers in the Corps.

A hand drawn map was displayed on the table, marking all the distribution of the highway along the highway and the fork crossing of the dirt road.

They are discussing which road to enter the expressway will be more "safe".

That night, 5 trucks will be loaded with 40 tons of cotton across the heavy barriers and sent to private acquisition stations 15 kilometers away.

At 3 in the night, five trucks parked in the corn fields beside the motorway, and two small pickup trucks went to "detect the situation" first.

Soon, pickup trucks came back, the farmers were very happy, because they can not expect, this should have eight points on the road there are only four levels, and the road to go, only through three levels.

A farmer laughs and says, "the supervisors are also unable to stay. They have been guarding for more than two months, plus a cold day. Many people withdraw at night, and 80% of them do not sleep."

Five large trucks wobbly on the highway, and immediately ran up to the local purchasing station.

The owner of the local acquisition station has already prepared cash to wait for the goods to be collected, and repeatedly stressed that he will return to Wenzhou next week, and the goods will be delivered quickly.

The farmers were busy persuading him to wait two more days, saying that there were still plenty of cotton in the house.

The five cars sold for 480 thousand yuan. If they were sent to the processing plant of the regiment, they would be 280 thousand yuan according to the current price of 7 yuan / kg.

A farmer patted the money box and said, "good boy, it's 200 thousand."

Seeing that the snowfall is coming down, the purchasers are going to leave Xinjiang. If the cotton growers of the cotton hoard do not find the "high price resale" opportunity, they will only be handed over to the Corps processing plant according to the State price.

Facing the last chance, many people take the chance to make the final decision.

Let hoarding cotton "spit" cotton

According to the statistics of China cotton information network, as of the end of October, the proportion of cotton picking in Xinjiang was 85%, compared to 90% in the same period last year, but the difference was not large. But this year's purchase ratio was 45%, compared to 70% last year.

According to the data, more than half of the cotton is not bought, but stored by cotton farmers at home.

In order to curb the "reselling wind", the Xinjiang production and Construction Corps has tried every means to even adopt some "extraordinary measures".

In September, a regiment of the northern Xinjiang Group, led by the regiment leader, took the company's commander in charge of the "current sale of cotton", which was stationed beside the highway. The company commander immediately assembled and recognized the people on the spot, buckled, confiscated and fined.

At the same time, the "cotton picking group", which was led by the deputy directors, was warned by the house in the Corps.

In the early spring, every cotton grower contracted many acres of cotton fields, and the company had detailed records.

According to the average yield per mu, we can calculate the total cotton production of each household, and then compare the cotton list submitted to the Corps processing plant, so that we can know how much cotton each family has hoarding.

The first big owner of hoarding is private farmers.

In each regiment, a private farmer can contract thousands of acres of cotton fields, and the total output can reach more than 30 tons.

Besides, private farms are far away from the center of the Corps. The storehouse is easy to store cotton, and many private cars are easy to pport cotton.

In order to let cotton hoarding households "spit out" cotton, the regiment leaders have convened many meetings, and have personally visited and persuaded them.

But as of October 20th, the private farmers of the regiment handed over less than 200 tons of cotton, and according to their estimated area and yield, they should hand over more than 1000 tons of cotton.

In early November, three poles were pulled from the corps to the private farm, and three private farms were cut off.

The regiment leader made a formal statement: when to pay the cotton and when to restore electricity.

More than 50 children in the regiment primary school were told by their teachers that their parents were "hoarding cotton households". The regiment ordered that if parents did not hand in cotton again, they would have to stop their classes next week.

Wang Zhenxiang, a cotton grower, received a call from the Corps social security office and asked him to get his social security materials.

The staff of the social security office said he did not submit the contract to cotton, and the regiment no longer controls his social security.

In November 9th, the regiment held a general staff meeting.

The regiment leader revealed that the corps cotton will be cashed at the end of the year at the price of 10 yuan / kg.

At that time, the average price of cotton in the market was 12 yuan / kg.

Obviously, the price is more satisfactory to cotton growers.

As of November 15th, the processing plant received 4000 tons of cotton and completed half of the scheduled task, and 15 days ago, the processing plant had received less than 2000 tons of cotton.

Who thought, in November 16th, from other Corps news, the price to be cashed is 7.8 yuan / kg.

Cotton farmers immediately exploded the pot. They knew that the cashing price at the end of the year was stipulated by the state. The Corps did not have the right to fix the price. It seemed that the commitment of 10 yuan / kg was only a slow tactic for the leaders of the corps to make cotton farmers pay for cotton.

Li Fukun, a cotton grower, has calculated that because of the soaring cotton prices this year, agricultural distributors and cotton pickers have taken the opportunity to "raise the cost price", which has cost about 1200 yuan per mu.

But because of the bad weather this year, the yield per mu of cotton is less than 140 kilograms. If the price is 7.8 yuan per kilogram, it will earn 1092 yuan per mu.

"I worked for a year and lost more than 100 yuan a mu. What am I trying to say?" Li Fukun jumped up and down.

"In the Corps, the cost is calculated according to the market price. It is too high and the price is fixed according to the State price."

Since the cashing price of 7.8 yuan / kg has been spread, the cotton grower who often asks for information at the door of the building of the regiment has asked the leader: "how much is it?"

A leader of the regiment revealed to reporters that they also did not know how much the cash price would be, because the state did not announce it. No one could tell. "It is estimated that it will not be as low as 7.8 yuan, but the possibility of 10 yuan is also very small."

What did the promise to cotton growers do? The leader sighed deeply: "we have no way to do this, otherwise cotton will not be able to be collected, so we will go all over to sell it."

Regiment's "helpless three tactics"

In November 19th, the conference room of a regiment office building was filled with smoke, and the windows were covered with snow.

All the participants were the top leaders of the regiment, and behind them sat a deputy commander in charge of agricultural production.

The head of the regiment stood before the projector, cracking the projection cloth.

Seeing that it has entered the final stage of autumn harvest, its processing capacity is still less than 2/3 of its task.

The head of the regiment took the list of the total cotton delivered by each company and began to ask the situation one by one.

In fact, the situation is all the same. Many cotton growers have "sold" the cotton, and the total amount of the total turnover is not enough. Moreover, the "scalping" cotton is mostly one or two or three grade quality cotton, and most of the cotton processing plants are four or five and six grade cotton, and the quality is poor.

As of November 22nd, the total amount of cotton delivered by the regiment was less than 6500 tons, and this year's task of delivering cotton was 10 thousand tons.

The cotton growers of the whole group hoarding cotton have already handed over the vast majority of cotton under the supervision of the cotton picking group, but how can the 4500 ton gap be blocked?

Finally, the group leader decided to solve the dilemma in three ways.

The first step is to raise the grade of local cotton.

According to Wang Changxi, director of the cotton processing plant of the regiment, at present, more than 80% of the cotton produced by cotton farmers in this regiment has been rated as the highest level. The price is also the highest price, but in fact, the cotton that reaches the first level is less than 20% of the total.

Wang Changxi said that according to the regulations, the proportion of high quality "pre frost flowers" and low quality "frost flowers" should be 4:1, but the actual situation is just the opposite.

In order to complete the task of proportions of high-quality cotton, and to appease the cotton farmers of the local corps, the processing plant under the guidance of the Corps leaders "widely appraised the first grade cotton".

The second step is to acquire local low-grade cotton hoarding.

It is understood that the "private trading" between the regiment and the local community has existed for many years, and whenever the regiment fails to hand in its tasks, it will buy Cotton locally.

Because the local market is more free market acquisition system, the general grade of cotton will be bought at a high price, and many low grade cotton can not be sold at a good price because the local cotton farmers are hoarding at home.

The regiment commander called the head of the finance section and told the company commander that they could get the money to buy Cotton locally, so that they could finish the task that they did not meet, and the arrears would be settled together at the end of the year.

Twelve Zhang Xiaowu, the company commander, received 500 thousand yuan. The company's task was 300 tons, and 85 tons to date.

He hastened to contact the local cotton growers to discuss the purchase price. He quickly won 30 tons of local low-grade cotton at a price of 6 yuan / kg.

He told reporters that these cotton are almost worth the price, and the local cotton farmers will not suffer losses. By the end of the year, the price of these cotton will be at least 7 yuan / kg, and the company and regiment will not suffer losses.

The third step is to enlarge the area of cotton picking.

Since 2002, the mission began to test the machine for cotton production, as of 2010.

Why did it suddenly expand the area of machine harvested cotton? Wang Zhenqiang, the chief agricultural technician of the regiment, answered the reason: this year's cotton growers are complaining that they can't earn money. The main problem is that the manpower cost of picking cotton is greatly increased. The cotton picking machine can solve this problem, reduce the labor cost and increase the income of cotton farmers.

In fact, the biggest advantage of planting cotton is "selling instead".

It takes hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy a cotton picking machine, so the cotton picker in the Corps is made up of

This seemingly perfect method is actually a helpless move.

Wang Zhenqiang told China Economic Weekly.

But the machine picked cotton is indeed the best choice for the Corps at present, compared to the 5 times the artificial picking price and the repeated "crazy reselling".

Local cotton processing plant "big shuffle"

Cotton farmers are exulting in Akesu, Xinjiang's main cotton producing area. Good wine and good meat have sent off a number of foreign seasonal workers picking cotton.

This year, cotton prices in Akesu have remained high, leading only to Xinjiang, which once exceeded 15 yuan / kg, which is two times that of last year.

After the autumn harvest ended, Akesu's cotton growers, no matter big or small, made a full pot.

But some people are happy and sad. Akesu's processing enterprises have ushered in the "Great Depression" which happened in ten years.

Maimaiti, the director of the cotton processing plant in the past ten years, has been very disappointed: "I have never seen such a high cotton price, and the business can not go any further!" because cotton prices soared, and their purchase orders and processing orders were signed last year, resulting in Maimaiti losing millions of dollars.

Just now, Jinlin, an old friend of Wenzhou who supplied him all year round, went to the door.

The old buyer, who has been committed to circulation, is ready to switch to processing.

In fact, Jinlin has been watching the "Crazy" cotton price, and in the more vigorous "new Wenzhou business" looting, Jinlin has not been involved in cotton purchase, he found a better investment point - ginning factory.

According to Jinlin, a lot of "old Wenzhou businessmen" have put their eyes on the processing link. Under the background of soaring raw material prices, many private small processing plants are hard to hit and go bankrupt. Many "old Wenzhou businessmen" at this time bargain at low prices, and bought a very "cost-effective" processing link.

At present, Jinlin has bought 4 small cotton ginning plants, and two ginning plants have more than 50% of his shares.

According to media reports, only in Tacheng and Yili, the cotton purchasing processing enterprises established by Zhejiang businessmen and acted as corporate representatives accounted for 40% of all cotton processing enterprises in the region.

Judging from the market share of cotton purchase, the annual processing capacity of 10 Kuitun Zheshang enterprises accounts for 1/3 of the land cotton processing market.

In Akesu, there are about 50 cotton processing enterprises in Zhejiang Province.

Jinlin believes that this year's cotton prices are very abnormal, such a bubble is very difficult to continue, the "new Wenzhou businessmen" profits will also be difficult to repeat.

However, the control process is different. No matter what the price of cotton will be next year, the processing links can be sold at a higher price, making money more steadily.

"I will not sign the contract next year," he said.

Jinlin said with a smile.

State operated enterprises are not that easy.

Jiang Tao, chairman of Xinjiang's largest state-owned cotton spinning enterprise, Xinjiang gold Textile Group, told China Economic Weekly that although the price of cotton yarn has gone up, it still can not make up for the losses caused by high cotton prices.

"If you don't buy such a high cotton, you close it.

As a state-owned enterprise, we have 2000 employees. We are responsible for our social responsibilities. We dare not close the door. We only have losses. "

State owned factories are sticking their heads up, and private processing plants are undergoing mergers and acquisitions.