On 3 march 1962, the cotton field of the red flag commune of toxon county exploded. The operator drives a tractor and tills the fields for the second team, the cotton team。
This scene is the living practice of moving towards mechanization of cotton cultivation in xinjiang, breaking down the inefficiency of traditional manual labour, and is the beginning of the modernization of the cotton industry in xinjiang。
With more than 60 years of change, the process of mechanizing cotton in xinjiang has progressed from a single chain of mechanical work to a full-scale intelligent production。
On 19 march 2024, employees of the first division of the xinjiang corps of production and construction started planting cotton on agricultural aircraft equipped with beidou navigation in highly standardized fields. Over 2 million acres of cotton fields have been fully integrated. Sun guo-jin
On 19 march 2024, the first division of the xinjiang production and construction corps, 10 groups of high-standard agricultural land, was successfully seeded by workers on an agricultural machine carrying the beidou navigation system. With navigation techniques in place, the sowing range and depth error are controlled at the centimetre level, and the operational efficiency has increased significantly compared with the deep-drawling of the tractor in 1962, resulting in a shift from “grain farming” to “precision cultivation”. At present, more than 2 million acres of cotton fields have been fully covered by the division's integrated approach, and a complete departure from the traditional model of “food by heaven, work by people” has become a vivid picture of the mechanization of cotton in xinjiang, from local piloting to global replication。
This cross-cutting and upgrading exercise became more visible in the cotton fields in 2025. On 12 october of the same year, a busy harvest of cotton fields in the integrated agricultural development area of the city of kramayy city, with large-scale, intelligent cotton-mining machines travelling through the country, efficiently completing harvests and demonstrating the dynamism of modern agriculture。
On 12 october 2025, large-scale cotton-cutting machines operated in cotton fields in the integrated agricultural development area of the city of kramayy, which was busy. In recent years, the city of kramay has been increasing the level of mechanized harvesting of cotton, with a mechanical harvest rate of over 98 per cent. Kung-ho
From the old-fashioned tractor of the red flag community to the precision seeding machine of the beidou navigational power, to the efficient and intelligent cotton machine, to the iterative upgrading of an agricultural machine, the history of the development of the cotton industry in xinjiang is engraved。
This is not only an innovation in production tools, but also a true testimony to the process of modernization of xinjiang agriculture. From early mechanization exploration to today's whole chain of intelligent farming, every breakthrough carries with it the unfailing quest for efficiency gains. Over the course of more than 60 years, a living book has been written on the vast transformation of the cotton industry from traditional farming to modern intelligence。
Planning: song jun
Production: yuray
