The Biggest Cotton Producing Area In Xinjiang Is Strong In "Counter Trend".

In April, the southern Xinjiang was at the busy season of spring sowing and spring sowing. But Tuerxun Guli, a young farmer in Kashi's wasteland Village, was not concerned about the field every morning, but was able to catch up with the village bus to the garment factory.

3 months ago, the new garment enterprises in Kashi Economic Development Zone hired workers. After signing the training, they could earn 2500 yuan a month, attracting more than 800 rural women from nearby towns to sign up.

From the rural labor women to the clothing industry workers' identity change, carrying many southern Tuerxun Guli's labor force through employment to realize the dream of family income increase.

In recent years, despite the "new normal" of the economy, the whole country

The development of the industry has generally slowed down, but in Xinjiang, the largest cotton producing area in China, the industry has been "strong against the trend" and has become an important carrier for stimulating employment.

According to the the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Commission of letters, this is mainly due to the second central Xinjiang work symposium. The central and autonomous regions based on Xinjiang's social stability and long-term stability, will develop textile and clothing and other labor-intensive industries to solve employment as the primary livelihood project, not only for the scientific layout of industrial planning, but also provide a series of special support policies such as special funds for industrial development, preferential tax, low electricity prices, and staff training subsidies.

Attracted by the policy advantages and attractive resources and location advantages, the fixed assets investment of Xinjiang textile and garment industry last year increased by 31 billion 790 million yuan, an increase of 231% over the same period last year, and more than 380 new textile and garment enterprises. Many famous enterprises such as Jinsheng, Tianhong, and red beans were investing in Xinjiang. Such as Italian, Huamao and other large enterprises also accelerated their capacity expansion, and the textile and garment industry added 97 thousand new jobs in the whole year.

Xinjiang, especially in southern Xinjiang, has a large amount of employment pressure, prominent structural contradictions and poor stability. Every year, Xinjiang needs to solve nearly 600 thousand urban labor force employment, and nearly 3 million of the rural surplus labor force needs to be pferred. Nearly 2/3 of them are concentrated in southern Xinjiang.

In July last year, the autonomous region put forward the plan to develop through 10 years and stages. By 2023, the size of the cotton spinning 20 million spindles and the clothing and apparel production capacity of 800 million pieces (sets) had been formed. The total output value of the textile and garment industry reached 212 billion 500 million yuan, and the total industrial chain employment capacity increased from 20 to 1 million people.

In March this year, the autonomous region once again shortened the subsidy cycle, reduced financing costs, and set up

8 new initiatives such as the development of special funds to promote the textile and garment industry to promote employment, but also to the southern part of the 4 states to launch special support initiatives.

Liang Yong, Deputy Secretary General of the people's Government of the autonomous region and director of the textile Office of the autonomous region, said that this year, Xinjiang is expected to invest 45 billion 500 million yuan in fixed assets of textile and clothing, cultivate 300 enterprises above Designated Size, and achieve an increase of 30% in industrial added value and 110 thousand new jobs.