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Cotton processing factory just outside of Yuli in Xinjiang. This is one of the largest cotton factories in the area and cotton is the region's primary cash crop. Private farmers bring their raw cotton here from the surrounding farms in wagons pulled by tractors to sell it here. It is then loaded onto large piles by laborers while it waits to have the seeds removed and be compacted into bales for shipment to washing and spinning factories.

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Cotton processing factory just outside of Yuli in Xinjiang. This is one of the largest cotton factories in the area and cotton is the region's primary cash crop. Private farmers bring their raw cotton here from the surrounding farms in wagons pulled by tractors to sell it here. It is then loaded onto large piles by laborers while it waits to have the seeds removed and be compacted into bales for shipment to washing and spinning factories.

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