Let The British Media Disappointed! Xinjiang Clothing Factory Director Responds To The So-Called "Forced Labor"

Let the British media "disappointed"! The director of Xinjiang clothing factory responded to the so-called "forced labor": it is not true, and it is the most troublesome job hopping of employees

In the eyes of Anti China forces, white cotton is no longer just a cold proof thing. Recently, they have found more "uses" of cotton. This crop, which can be seen everywhere in Xinjiang, has become a new "carrier" of so-called "forced labor" in the West. On the 15th, the BBC reported on "China's tainted cotton", citing the so-called "research" of Anti China scholars, saying that "China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities to work hard in the vast cotton fields in Xinjiang.". The Global Times reporter recently interviewed Aksu, Korla and other places and found that the cotton production in Xinjiang has already been highly mechanized, and the BBC report is seriously inconsistent with the facts.

"500000 florists a year"? Mechanized cotton production in Xinjiang

"New evidence suggests that more than half a million ethnic minority workers are deployed to seasonal cotton picking every year, and their working environment may be highly coercive." The BBC report quoted Zheng Guoen, a senior researcher at the anti Communist Organization "the Memorial Foundation for the victims of communism", for his so-called "research". In recent years, Zheng Guoen has become famous for his false academic achievements in fabricating Anti China issues. He is the backbone of the Anti China Research Institute set up by the US intelligence agencies. On December 2, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that its customs and border protection officers would detain cotton and cotton products from China's Xinjiang production and Construction Corps at all U.S. entry points, citing "forced labor" in the Corps.

According to the BBC report, in 2018, Aksu and Hotan "sent 210000 workers through labor transfer" to pick cotton for the "Chinese paramilitary organization" Xinjiang production and Construction Corps, "there are many signs that this participation is not entirely voluntary.".

However, a reporter from the global times in Xinjiang found that there was a huge factual error in the BBC report: cotton production in Xinjiang has been highly mechanized, and even in the busy picking season, there is no need for a large number of "flower pickers". Local cotton industry practitioners say that if the efficiency of manual cotton picking is followed, it is often impossible to harvest cotton in December every year. However, in several "ginning plants" (cotton processing enterprises) visited by the reporter, the cotton harvest has already been completed, and the processed cotton bales are stacked orderly in rows, waiting to be transported to downstream enterprises.

Li Chengjun, legal representative of Taichang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. of Bayingolin Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture, has been responsible for the agricultural sector of the company for 12 years. In an interview with the global times on the 22nd, he said that since 2015, most of the agricultural cotton output in Bazhou has been mechanized cotton, while the mechanization of Xinjiang production and Construction Corps has been realized earlier. "Before 2016, there was a large amount of cotton picking labor. At the most time, more than 3000 workers were recruited from Henan, Sichuan and other inland provinces to pick cotton, which was inefficient. Now one cotton harvester can harvest in one day 400 mu, the company's 60000 mu of land, mechanical mining 15 days, basically finished 85%. It takes only one or two hundred people to clean up the fields. "

Li Chengjun is not boasting. The reporter learned that the highly mechanized cotton production is no longer fresh in Xinjiang. Xinjiang Haoxing cotton and hemp Co., Ltd. has been purchasing cotton produced by Xinjiang production and Construction Corps for many years. Gao Ruinan, the company's business manager, told the global times on the 25th that the mechanization of XPCC was earlier than that of the local governments. Now, the mechanization rate of XPCC cotton has exceeded 90%, and in some places it has even reached 100%.

BBC reporter said "shooting in public areas is blocked", the parties responded

The BBC report is full of imagination. According to the report, "many factories in Xinjiang appear within the walls of the" re education camp "or not far away from each other, indicating that large-scale employment and detention are two parallel targets.". Satellite images of aksukqa city were also distributed to prove that "factories and camps now seem to have merged into a large factory complex".

"I can solemnly say that the teaching and training center will be completed in 2019." On the 24th, Huang Bingyou, the director of Kuqa pomegranate seed Clothing Co., Ltd., a "large factory complex" called by the BBC, responded bluntly, "we are an ordinary factory, and the management staff are all hired from the mainland, not sent by the government."

Interestingly, perhaps worried that the material would not be enough to support his imagination, the BBC reporter John Sudworth, who wrote the report, blundered that he was "repeatedly prevented from filming by police, local propaganda officials, etc., and was constantly tailed by a large number of unidentified people driving vehicles for hundreds of kilometers." Sha Lei and his team also released footage of a quarrel with several people outside the pomegranate seed company. A middle-aged man blocked the scene with his hand, which was described as "although the BBC team only filmed on public roads outside the factory, it was repeatedly blocked by officials of different identities."

"This is a complete reversal of black and white!" the Global Times reporter interviewed the man who blocked the camera in the video. His name was Jiang Yong, not a "government official" referred to by the BBC, but the head of logistics and Security Department of pomegranate seed company. Jiang Yong restored the situation of the day to the reporter of the Global Times: "on the morning of November 19, our security guards found that foreigners were taking pictures of the situation in the factory workshop with a camera. I came out and said to them not to shoot, but they immediately turned the camera to me. As a factory manager, I have the responsibility to protect the safety of the factory. As an individual, I also have my own portrait right

"Global Times" reporter learned that after Sha Lei and others were found, their vehicles quickly drove away, and kept circling around and secretly filming, until they were stopped by traffic police who received the alarm. Jiang Yong said that at that time, Sha Lei and others constantly claimed that they were shooting in the "public area". He felt that the logic was ridiculous: "look, they are standing here, only a few meters away from the workshop. According to their logic, if it is not a factory but my home, I take a bath at home and go to the toilet, can I let them shoot freely in the 'public area'

Jiang Yong said that what angered him most was that one of the reporters said after apologizing that Jiang Yong's image would not appear on any public platform. As a result, after the report was published, the picture of him blocking the camera with his hand was taken out of context as "local officials blocking the interview", and was also said that "this blocking action is more suspicious". In response, Jiang Yong felt very funny: "we have nothing to hide. Inside is the hard work of the staff. The reason why I was so excited at that time was that some foreign media had secretly photographed it before, and the reports sent out were totally defamatory."

Pomegranate seed factory director: there is no "forced labor" at all, the most troublesome job hopping

What's in the pomegranate seed company's workshop? The answer may disappoint BBC reporters. When the Global Times reporter walked in on the 24th, they saw the same situation as many garment enterprises in Xinjiang: spotless workshops, brand-new machines and employees wearing uniform. According to public information, pomegranate seed company established in March 2020 mainly produces school uniforms, bags and other products, and most of the orders come from Xinjiang.

The 23-year-old head of the workshop, aliya ababaike, is a smiling girl. This is her first official job, with a monthly salary of about 2500 yuan. She told reporters that the most important thing is to realize the dream of childhood: learn to design clothes. The dormitories provided by the factory to the workers are transformed from spacious community houses, with heating, hot water, independent toilet and other facilities. Renaguli guhalam, a female worker, showed reporters around her dormitory. The paper flowers on the walls attracted the reporters. She said it was cut out in her spare time with her roommate.

In order to strengthen the association of the outside world on "forced labor" in Xinjiang, the BBC report specially emphasizes that the process of recruiting employees in factories has "government mobilization and organization". In this regard, factory director Huang Bingyou told the global times that this is not true. He said that when the factory was just set up, managers took job advertisements to the surrounding villages, and each village would have a contact person. Employees who live close to their homes can come in the morning and return at night. Those who live far away have dormitories. At first, more than 1800 people were recruited, and in the end, more than 500 people left voluntarily through training and guidance. The factory will also subsidize part of the salary during the training period in order to meet the minimum wage standard. "There is no coercion at all. The most troublesome thing for us to do business now is to ask the employees about the salaries of other enterprises in private. If the employees who have just been trained want to change jobs, the enterprises really can't help it."

When asked by a Global Times reporter, "once our enterprises have made money, we should invest in the society to help solve the difficulties of more low-income people, so that they can have a better life." Get rich. This is what we have inherited from Chinese civilization. "