Beautiful Xinjiang: Reform, agricultural modernization and industrial upgrades

Posted by kuailai99 on August 16th, 2018

In Wujiaqu of Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a city built and administered by Bingtuan — or the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps — economic vitality is on the rise, as the XPCC has deepened reform, modernized agricultural industry and developed high-tech industry.To get more china finance news, you can visit shine news official website.

Xi Xiaolei, a worker at XPCC Sixth Division's 102th Regiment Company 4, told China Daily Website the free agricultural land allotted to her has increased from more than twenty mu to 50 mu (0.03 square kilometers) since the confirmation of land rights was carried out in the division last year. "The annual income of my family is about 100,000 yuan and we can make more money this year through planting more seed-melon and cotton, thanks to the confirmation of workers' land rights," Xi said.

The confirmation of land rights is an important part of XPCC's strategic plan to deepen reform. Zhang Wuping, head of the 102th Regiment, said the reform, having been promoted for more than a year, reshaped the relationship between the farm and the workers and brought workers more benefits. Last year, the average annual income per capita of Company 4's workers was 65,000 yuan, a 30 percent increase year-on-year, according to Zhang.Incomes aren't the only things improved through the reform.

Workers of XPCC Sixth Division are also benefitting from the development of agricultural modernization. For Xi, planting cotton is no longer a heavy job in the fields, since agricultural machinery and equipment can replace most of the manual work. "There is a drop-irrigation tube in the cotton field and it only takes half a day for cotton pickers to harvest the field, which saves me a lot of time and effort," Xi said.In the Sixth Division of XPCC, Xinjiang Junggar Yinfeng Agricultural Equipment Co Ltd, founded in July 2012, has 33 technicians and 149 cotton pickers. The company, mainly providing mechanized cotton harvesting services for seven planting farms in the Sixth Division, has completed a total of 1.65 million mu of land harvesting operations, earned an income of 229 million yuan and realized a profit of 52.25 million yuan since 2012.