Wondrous Xinjiang: Machines drive cotton harvest in Xinjiang

URUMQI, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- When the cotton harvest season started in October, the vast cotton fields in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region saw humming cotton-picking machines instead of farmers.

Thanks to the machines, Yan Zhimin, a cotton farmer in Puhui Township, Korla City, can complete cotton picking in just days.

"The cotton-picking machine is highly efficient. With it, my 40-hectare