Shotlist FILE: Toksun County, Turpan City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - October 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 1. Aerial shots of cotton fields 2. Various of reapers working in cotton fields FILE: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - Date Unknown (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 3. Various of cotton fields FILE: Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - 2024 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 4. Various of reapers working in cotton fields 5. Various of machines working; cotton straw pile FILE: Toksun County, Turpan City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest China - October 2025 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland) 6. Various of vehicle carrying roll cotton, rolls of cotton Storyline Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region recorded a record cotton output of over 6 million tonnes in 2025, official data showed on Tuesday. The region produced 6.165 million tonnes of cotton in 2025, accounting for 92.8 percent of the national total, according to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of Xinjiang. Xinjiang's cotton planting area expanded to nearly 38.88 million mu (about 2.59 million hectares) in 2025, which was up 5.9 percent year on year, and its average yield came in at 158.6 kilograms per mu, up 2.4 percent year on year. Favorable weather conditions throughout the growing season helped boost output, with strengthened policy support, advances in agricultural technology, and improved talent development also contributing to higher productivity, experts say. Xinjiang remains China's largest cotton-producing region. The country's cotton output rose by 7.7 percent from 2024, totaling 6.641 million tonnes in 2025.