Let the British media disappointed! The director of Xinjiang Garment Factory responded to the so-called "forced labor"

Let the British media "disappointed"!

The director of Xinjiang Garment Factory responded to the so-called "forced labor": it is not true, and the most troublesome employees are changing jobs

　　[Global Times reporter Fan Lingzhi, Liu Xin, Liu Xin, and Yang Ruoyu] Blossoms of pure white cotton are more than just protection from the cold in the eyes of anti-China forces.

Recently, they have discovered more “uses” of cotton. This crop, which can be seen everywhere in Xinjiang, has become a new “carrier” for so-called “forced labor” in the West.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) report on the 15th was titled "China's tainted cotton", citing the so-called "research" by anti-China scholars, saying that "China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities to spread out in Xinjiang. Engaged in arduous physical labor in the cotton fields."

"Global Times" reporters recently interviewed in Aksu, Korla and other places and found that Xinjiang's cotton production has long been highly mechanized, and the BBC report is seriously inconsistent with the facts.

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　　"New evidence shows that every year more than 500,000 ethnic minority workers are deployed to participate in seasonal cotton picking work, and their working environment may be highly coercive." The BBC report quoted the US anti-communist organization "Communist Victims Memorial Fund" The so-called "research" of Zheng Guoen, a senior researcher at the meeting, made this conclusion.

In recent years, Zheng Guoen has gained fame by relying on the false academic achievements of concocting anti-China issues. He is the backbone of the anti-China research institute established by the US intelligence agencies.

Prior to this, on December 2, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security announced that the country’s Customs and Border Protection personnel would detain cotton and cotton products from China’s Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps at all ports of entry in the United States on the grounds that the Corps “exists forced labor. ".

　　The BBC report also stated that in 2018, Aksu and Hotan regions “sent 210,000 workers through labor transfer” to pick cotton for the “Chinese paramilitary organization” Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. “There are many signs that this participation is not entirely voluntary. ".

　　However, a reporter from the "Global Times" in Xinjiang found that there was a huge factual error in the BBC's report: Xinjiang's cotton production has been highly mechanized, and even in the busy picking season, there is no need for a large number of "flower pickers."

A practitioner in the local cotton industry told reporters that if the efficiency of manual cotton picking is followed, it is often not finished until December every year.

However, in several "ginning factories" (cotton processing enterprises) visited by the reporter, the harvest of cotton has already been completed, and the processed cotton bales are neatly stacked in rows, waiting to be shipped to downstream enterprises.

　　Li Chengjun, the legal representative of Bayingoleng Mongolian Autonomous Prefecture Taichang Agricultural Development Co., Ltd., has been in charge of the company's agricultural sector for 12 years.

In an interview with the Global Times on the 22nd, he said that since 2015, most of the agricultural cotton output in the Bazhou area has been machine-picked cotton, and the mechanization of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps has been realized earlier. The amount of cotton labor is very large. At most, more than 3,000 workers are recruited from Henan, Sichuan and other inland provinces to pick cotton. The efficiency is low. Now, a cotton harvester can harvest 400 acres a day, and the company’s 60,000 acres of land are machine-picked In 15 days, 85% is basically harvested. It only takes one to two hundred people to clean the cotton in the fields."

　　Li Chengjun is not exaggerating. The reporter learned that highly mechanized cotton production is indeed no longer new in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang Haoxing Cotton and Hemp Co., Ltd. has been purchasing cotton produced by Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps for many years. The company’s business manager Gao Ruinan told the Global Times reporter on the 25th that the mechanization of the Corps was earlier than that of local governments. It has exceeded 90%, and in some places it has even reached 100%.

　　The BBC reporter said that "filming in public areas was blocked", the person concerned responded

　　The BBC report is full of imagination.

According to the report, Xinjiang "many factories appear within the walls of the're-education camps' or not far away, indicating that large-scale employment and detention are two parallel goals."

The report also distributed satellite images of Aksu Kuche City to prove that "the factory and the camp now seem to have merged into a large factory complex."

　　"I can solemnly say that the'Education and Training Center' will be closed in 2019." On the 24th, at the "large-scale factory complex" called by the BBC-Kuqa Pomegranate Seed Clothing Co., Ltd., the director Huang Bingyou was straightforward. Responded, "We are just an ordinary factory, and management personnel are hired from the mainland, not dispatched by the government."

　　Interestingly, perhaps he was worried that the interview material was not enough to support his conjecture. The BBC reporter John Sudworth who wrote the report trumpeted that he was "repeatedly blocked by the police and local propaganda officials from filming, and was constantly being taken by a large number of unidentified people." The driving vehicle followed and tracked hundreds of kilometers.” Sha Lei and his team also released footage of his quarrel with multiple people outside the Pomegranate Seed Company. A middle-aged man blocked his camera with his hand and was said to be “despite the BBC The team only filmed on public roads outside the factory, but was repeatedly blocked by officials of different identities."

　　"This is totally reversing black and white!" A reporter from the Global Times interviewed the man who blocked the camera in the video. His name was Jiang Yong. He was not a "government official" as the BBC referred to, but the director of the logistics and security department of the Pomegranate Seed Company.

Jiang Yong restored the situation of the day to a reporter from the Global Times: "On the morning of November 19th, our security found that foreigners were using cameras to film the situation in the factory workshop. I walked out and told them not to take pictures. Who knows them? Turn the camera to me immediately. As a factory manager, I have a responsibility to protect the safety of the factory. As an individual, I also have my own portrait right!"

　　The "Global Times" reporter learned that after Sha Lei and others were discovered, their vehicle drove away quickly and kept going in circles nearby and secretly filming until they were stopped by the traffic police who received the call.

Jiang Yong told reporters that at the time Sha Lei and others kept claiming that they were shooting in a "public area", he felt that this logic was absurd: "You see where they are standing, they are only tens of meters away from the workshop. According to their logic, if that The side is not a factory, but my house. I take a shower and go to the toilet at home, can I also let them take photos in the'public area' at will?"

　　Jiang Yong said that what irritated him most was that one of the reporters said after an apology that Jiang Yong’s image would not appear on any public platform. As a result, after the report was released, the picture of him blocking the camera with his hand was taken out of context. "Local officials blocked the interview" and was also called "this blocking action is even more suspicious."

Jiang Yong felt ridiculous about this statement: "We have nothing to hide. The employees are working diligently. The reason why I was emotional at the time was that there had been foreign media who had secretly photographed before, and the reports were completely slanderous. ."

　　Pomegranate Seed Plant Manager: There is no "forced labor" at all, and the most troublesome employees are changing jobs

　　What exactly is in the workshop of Pomegranate Seed Company?

The mystery may make BBC reporters "disappointed." When a reporter from the Global Times walked here on the 24th, he saw the same situation as clothing companies in many parts of Xinjiang: spotless workshops, brand-new machines and employees in neat work clothes.

According to public information, the pomegranate seed company established in March 2020 mainly produces school uniforms, luggage and other products, and orders mostly come from Xinjiang.

　　The 23-year-old workshop leader Aliye Ababakri is a girl who loves to laugh. This is her first formal job. The monthly salary is about 2500 yuan.

She told reporters that the most important thing is that she can realize her childhood dream here: learn to design clothes.

The dormitory provided by the factory for workers is transformed from a spacious residential quarter with all facilities such as heating, hot water, and independent toilets.

Female worker Rena Guli Guhala showed reporters around her dormitory, and the paper flowers plastered on the walls attracted reporters.

She said it was cut out by her and her roommate in their spare time.

　　In order to strengthen the outside world's association of "forced labor" in Xinjiang, the BBC report specifically emphasizes that the process of recruiting employees in factories has "government mobilization and organization."

In this regard, the director Huang Bingyou told the "Global Times" reporter that this is not true.

He said that when the factory was first established, the management staff took the job advertisements to the surrounding villages and distributed them, and each village had a contact person.

The recruited employees who live close to their homes can come back and forth in the morning and night. Those who live far away have dormitories. At the beginning, more than 1,800 people were recruited. In the end, through training and guidance, more than 500 people stayed voluntarily.

The factory will also subsidize part of the salary during the training period in order to meet the minimum wage standard. "There is no compulsion. Now when we are a company, the most troublesome thing is that employees privately inquire about the salary of other companies. Employees who have just been trained have to change jobs. There is no way for the business."

　　To train workers with relatively low work skills and to subsidize wages, why do companies that should be "profit first" travel all the way to Xinjiang to set up factories?

When asked about this question by a reporter from the Global Times, Huang Bingyou said, “Once our company has made money, it should invest in society to help solve the difficulties of more low-income people so that they can get rich together. This is something passed down from our Chinese civilization."