There were about 750,000 cotton picking Chinese who showed up to, well, pick cotton in Xinjiang in China's Uygur Autonomous Region.
Xinjiang is China's largest cotton manufacturing base and the government is fertilizing the area with 750 million yuan ($93.75 million) in funds over the next five years to help the region expand its output capacity and provide jobs for people from Gansu, Sichuan, Henan and Shaanxi provinces...says the Xinjiang Regional Trade Union Federation.
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