Beautiful Xinjiang: Reform, agricultural modernization and industrial upgrades

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.

She only needs to spend about 20 yuan per mu hiring cotton pickers.

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.