Harvest season of cotton starts in Xinjiang
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A cotton picker operates in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County. (Xinhua/Jia Zhao)
An aerial drone photo shows a cotton picker operating in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County. (Xinhua/Su Chuanyi)
A villager loads bundles of newly harvested cotton in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County. (Xinhua/Gu Yu)
Bundles of harvested cotton are transported to factory in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County. (Xinhua/He Xiaotong)
A bundle of newly harvested cotton is loaded onto a truck in a field in Xayar County of Aksu, northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Oct. 21, 2025. The harvest season of cotton has started in Xayar County.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
