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300,000 Females Come to Serve as Cotton Pickers in Xinjiang
To the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps whose pillar industry is cotton production, harvesting in the vast field in this season has practically only one theme, that is picking cotton. Almost all workers of the farm throw themselves onto the field to pick cotton. Among the mighty army, 300,000 women from outside the region, specifically, from Gansu, Sichuan, Henan, Anhui, Hunan and other provinces and cities.
The corps has 110 farms planted with cotton, which cover a total area of 5.7 million mu (15 mu = 1 hectare) with an average per mu production of 180 kg. Thought the mechanization degree in the corps reaches 80 percent, the help of non-native female workers is still needed during busy season. So here has naturally become a huge labor market. Since this early spring, there have been over 250,000 female outsiders active in the field of the farm, the number is as high as 300,000 in cotton-picking season.
In this case, a huge labor service market is formed naturally here. Since the early spring of each year, more than 200,000 such workers are working lively in the field of farms and the population can exceed 300,000.
In view of this circumstance, relevant departments at different levels of the corps have signed agreements on labor export with their counterparts of other provinces and autonomous regions to enhance management, ensure the orderly flow of labor power, and standardize the labor market, thereby guaranteeing social stability and protecting the legal rights and interests of laborers as well.
The corps has adopted preferential policies for them, especially for cotton-pickers. Their transportation is arranged by the farms, some of which even bear the expenses of transportation.
The farms provide them with free house, water, power supply and child care center for their children. In general, each worker can earn a net income of 2,500 yuan or more each quarter.
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