Related Keywords: aiming to create new textile jobs, Garment Manufacturing, intensive processing projects, major cotton production base, Northwest China, produces about sixty percent, raw cotton, Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, a major cotton production base in Northwest China that produces about 60 percent of China's raw cotton through its intensive processing projects such as garment manufacturing is aiming to create more than 100,000 new textile jobs in 2017.
Yin Xiaodong, an official in the region's textile industry estimated investment in the industry in the past three years exceeded 90 billion yuan, equivalent to the total from 1978 to 2013.
