Workers assemble cotton pickers at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024. Nearly 7,000 cotton pickers were used in the harvest season in Xinjiang in 2023, bringing the region's mechanization rate of cotton picking to over 85 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)

A worker assembles a cotton picker at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024. Nearly 7,000 cotton pickers were used in the harvest season in Xinjiang in 2023, bringing the region's mechanization rate of cotton picking to over 85 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)

A worker assembles a cotton picker at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024. Nearly 7,000 cotton pickers were used in the harvest season in Xinjiang in 2023, bringing the region's mechanization rate of cotton picking to over 85 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)

A worker checks a cotton picker at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024. Nearly 7,000 cotton pickers were used in the harvest season in Xinjiang in 2023, bringing the region's mechanization rate of cotton picking to over 85 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)

Workers assemble cotton pickers at an agricultural machinery manufacturing company in Usu, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Feb. 28, 2024. Nearly 7,000 cotton pickers were used in the harvest season in Xinjiang in 2023, bringing the region's mechanization rate of cotton picking to over 85 percent. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)