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GLOBALink | Reality in the sand: "forced labor" is foreign to Xinjiang's cotton farming

URUMQI, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Who's violating human rights? A man from Xinjiang, China created sand paintings to reveal the cotton farming history of the U.S. and to refute Western rumors about "forced labor" in Xinjiang.

Xinjiang is China's largest cotton-producing region. More than 70 percent of the region's cotton fields are farmed by machinery.

Produced by Xinhua Global Service