Cotton pickers return home
2010-11-10 14:49:45 GMT2010-11-10 22:49:45 (Beijing Time)
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Migrant cotton pickers take a train heading back to their homes at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
A migrant cotton picker runs to the train heading back to her home at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
Migrant cotton pickers wait for taking the train heading back to their homes at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
Migrant cotton pickers walk to the train heading back to their homes at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
Migrant cotton pickers smile as they wait to take the train heading back to their homes at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
A staff member checks the ticket for a migrant cotton picker at the Urumqi South Railway Station in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Nov. 10, 2010. (Xinhua/Zhao Ge)
The first batch of cotton pickers from Tianshui City in northwest China's Gansu Province went back home by train from Xinjiang on Wednesday. The cotton pickers are from many provinces in China, including Gansu, Jiangsu and Sichuan. Previously, they were picking cotton in Xinjiang, China's major cotton producing region, as a means to earn money.
