First special trains for cotton pickers set off
GOV.cn Friday, August 18, 2006


Two passengers who are to pick cottons in Xinjiang look out of the train bound for Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, at the railway station of Tianshui, city of northwest China's Gansu Province, Aug. 17, 2006. A total of 72 special trains will be provided to the estimated 260,000 labourers who will go to Xinjiang from Gansu during the cotton harvest season. [Xinhua Photo]


Migrant workers arrive at Urumqi railway station, Urumqi, captial of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Aug. 17, 2006. Migrant workers who will serve as cotton pickers have been streaming into Xinjiang as the cotton harvest season approaches. [Xinhua Photo]

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Editor: Du Jing
Source: Xinhua