Cloth is made from cotton.
布是用棉花织成的。
The land is cultivated with rice,cotton and vegetable
地里种着水稻、棉花和蔬菜
He could not cotton with the manager.
他和经理相处不好
I didn't cotton to her at first, but she's really nice.
我一开始并不喜欢她，但是她真的很好。
Uzbekistan, a landlocked nation well known for its high-quality cotton, has in recent years transformed into a "land-linked country" due to the continuous progress of cooperation in jointly building the BRI.
乌兹别克斯坦是一个以优质棉花闻名的内陆国家，近年来，随着共建“一带一路”合作的不断推进，乌兹别克斯坦已转型为“陆上连接国”。
This was particularly evident during the local cotton harvest season, with a continuous flow of trucks.
这一点在当地棉花收获季节尤为明显，卡车源源不断。
Its subsidiaries, including COFCO International, COFCO Trading, COFCO Grains & Cereals, and COFCO Oils & Oilseeds, procured agricultural products primarily cover core categories such as edible oils, rice, wheat, corn, sugar, cotton and dairy at the signing ceremony at the National Exhibition and Convention Center, the venue of CIIE, in Shanghai.
其子公司，包括中粮国际、中粮贸易、中粮粮油和中粮油籽，在上海进博会举办地国家会展中心举行的签字仪式上采购的农产品主要涵盖食用油、大米、小麦、玉米、食糖、棉花和乳制品等核心类别。
A heated cotton vest made by the company sells at 45 yuan, which is significantly cheaper than a down vest.
该公司生产的加热棉背心售价45元，比羽绒背心便宜得多。
The dome-shaped tent is suitable for use in cold environments and has some new design breakthroughs, such as being one of the few TC cotton (polyester cotton blend) spherical tents, and is priced at 14,980 yuan.
圆顶帐篷适合在寒冷环境中使用，并有一些新的设计突破，例如作为为数不多的TC棉（聚酯棉混纺）球形帐篷之一，售价14980元。
In addition to importing edible oil, sugar, meat, alcohol and dairy products from overseas markets, the company purchased grain and bulk commodities such as wheat, corn, sorghum and cotton to meet the demand of domestic food processing enterprises.
除了从海外市场进口食用油、食糖、肉类、酒精和乳制品外，该公司还采购了小麦、玉米、高粱和棉花等粮食和大宗商品，以满足国内食品加工企业的需求。
Syngenta Group China, one of the four major business units of Syngenta Group - the global seeds, crop protection and nutrition product manufacturer, pledged to work with more global and domestic partners to facilitate the sustainable growth of China's cotton and textile industries in the coming years, said its executives.
先正达集团（Syngenta Group China）是全球种子、作物保护和营养产品制造商先正达集团的四大业务部门之一，其高管表示，该集团承诺在未来几年与更多的全球和国内合作伙伴合作，促进中国棉花和纺织业的可持续增长。
The company and its partners such as Solidaridad, a Netherlands-based international NGO, have joined forces to launch a new project to solve the practical issues faced in industrial development, improve the production efficiency of cotton and other crops, improve the income of farmers, protect the ecological environment, and promote rural revitalization.
该公司及其合作伙伴，如总部位于荷兰的国际非政府组织Solidaridad，联合启动了一个新项目，以解决工业发展中面临的实际问题，提高棉花和其他作物的生产效率，提高农民收入，保护生态环境，促进乡村振兴。
Jiang Yekui, chief sustainable officer of Syngenta Group China, said the project will take the Hexi Corridor area of Gansu province as the core demonstration area, relying on Syngenta Group China's advanced water and fertilizer integration technology, comprehensive crop protection and crop nutrition solutions in China, effectively explore and summarize the implementation technology and experience model of cotton and rotation crops, and actively promote the concept of sustainable agricultural development and advanced production technology and business model.
先正达集团中国区首席可持续发展官姜业奎表示，该项目将以甘肃省河西走廊地区为核心示范区，依托先正达集团中国先进的水肥一体化技术、全面的作物保护和作物营养解决方案，有效探索和总结棉花和轮作作物的实施技术和经验模式，积极推广农业可持续发展理念和先进的生产技术和商业模式。
The company is eager to protect the natural environment and ensure ecological safety and provide scientific sustainable development solutions, he said during the 2022 Sustainable Cotton Development Forum held in Beijing early this week.
本周早些时候，他在北京举行的2022棉花可持续发展论坛上表示，该公司渴望保护自然环境，确保生态安全，并提供科学的可持续发展解决方案。
Hosted by the embassy of the Netherlands in China, Syngenta Group China and its partners discussed how to conduct sustained growth of China's cotton and textile value chains in a broader platform during the event.
由荷兰驻华大使馆主办，先正达集团中国公司及其合作伙伴在活动期间讨论了如何在更广泛的平台上实现中国棉花和纺织品价值链的持续增长。
Roderick Wols, deputy head of mission of the embassy of the Netherlands, said that as a bridge between the Netherlands and China, the embassy hopes to support institutions such as the Solidaridad and Syngenta Group China to give full play to their strengths and produce cotton and other agricultural products more sustainably through the joint efforts of many parties.
荷兰使馆使团副团长罗德里克·沃尔斯表示，作为荷兰与中国之间的桥梁，使馆希望通过多方共同努力，支持Solidaridad和先正达集团中国等机构发挥优势，更可持续地生产棉花等农产品。
Apart from signing import deals for cotton yarn from India and Pakistan to stabilize the industrial chain for domestic textile and garment manufacturers during the CIIE, Sinomach sealed a beef import agreement with the Minsk state government of Belarus to import 4,000 metric tons of beef on an annual basis.
除了在进博会期间签署了从印度和巴基斯坦进口棉纱的协议，以稳定国内纺织和服装制造商的产业链外，国机还与白俄罗斯明斯克州政府签订了牛肉进口协议，每年进口4000公吨牛肉。
The technology has been applied to cotton fields and other crops in relatively arid land, covering an area of 150,000 mu (10,000 hectares) in nations in Central Asia and Africa as a modern water conservation demonstration project, said Zhou Jun, general manager of Xinjiang Tianye Group.
"Since 2006, the integration of water and fertilizer has been promoted in Xinjiang cotton field.
Drawing on the experiences of building national reserve mechanisms for crude oil, cotton and grain, and learning from the international practices on agricultural emergency security systems, it should be a normal, intensive, systematic and digitalized "national agricultural security" system, said Feng Mingwei, vice-president of Syngenta Group China.
"This has pushed us to actively explore the research and development of organic cotton, bamboo charcoal fiber and antibacterial functional products to meet new market demand.
A few global retail giants such H&M and Adidas, which chose not to source cotton from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region citing alleged use of "forced labor", have also caused strong antipathy in Chinese consumers toward certain foreign apparel and footwear brands, Liu said.
Chinese apparel and sportswear brands have emphasized the use of domestic cotton and their focus on the Chinese market, with shares of many Chinese domestic sportswear groups surging.
Anta, a domestic leading sportswear brand, pledged on March 24 to exit the Better Cotton Initiative and that it will continue to use Chinese cotton, including from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
Li Ning Sports said it has not joined BCI and has been using cotton from Xinjiang as raw material for its products.
As some big international retail brands, including H&M and Nike, have chosen not to source cotton from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region over "forced labor" concerns based on false information, an earlier statement from US footwear producer Skechers on the issue has provided an alternative perspective.
Kappa on Friday announced it is not a member of Better Cotton Initiative and will always provide high-quality products to Chinese customers and fulfill its commitment to the Chinese market.
The sportswear brand also expresses its support to Chinese cotton and made-in-China products.
The Beijing-based group currently operates more than 960 grain, oil and cotton storage facilities, with a combined storage capacity of nearly 100 million metric tons.
Its warehousing facilities are made up of large house granaries, shallow bins, tower silos and various oil storage tankers, with main varieties of reserves including wheat, rice, corn, soybeans, cotton and edible oils.
The group has so far produced 16 million pieces of clothing made with eco-friendly fabrics, 4 million pieces made with fluorine-free water-repellent fabrics, and 2.93 million pieces made with organic cotton.
Meanwhile, the short-sleeve shirts are made using soft cotton and 3D cutting technology.
The technology has been applied to cotton fields, covering an area of 406.7 hectares in the Sirdaryo state of Uzbekistan as a modern water-saving demonstration project, said Yang Kaiwen, a planning director of the project management center from the Xinjiang Tianye water-saving irrigation corporation.
Compared with regular irrigation and plantation, the cotton sprouted five days earlier, according to Yang.
The first batch of provisions arrived in Wuhan, Hubei's capital city, on Tuesday night, bringing 40 types of daily necessities like electric blankets, cotton slippers, napkins, towels, combs and laundry detergent.
On Tuesday, Tom Cotton, a member of the US Senate select committee on intelligence, asked for a "thorough review" of intelligence-sharing with the UK.
The center is scheduled to start operations this month and will create up to 400 new jobs across information technology, procurement, human resources and finance, providing unified, professional services to COFCO's international businesses globally, ranging from trade, warehousing, and logistics to processing of grain, oils, cotton and sugar.
"We will give priority to areas that matter, like China's grain security, as well as increase investment in grain, oil, sugar and cotton to gain more global market share," said Lyu.
Noting that 90 percent of the fabric used in Kenya is imported, Ikiara said there is a great opportunity for import substitution through local production like cotton processing and ginning industries as well as textile mills and apparel manufacturing within special economic zones.
Aiming to be a leader in the global grains, oilseeds, sugar, coffee and cotton supply, COFCO International handled over 100 million tons of related commodities with revenues of $31 billion in 2018.
"I'm happy to sell cotton to Chinese people," said Tajik cotton farmer Vahit, who did not give his full name, when telling his stories about China's Zhongtai (Dangara) New Silk Road Textile Industry Company, a large cotton processing and textile producing enterprise bridging China and Tajikistan.
His special relationship with Zhongtai started three years ago, when the latter made an exception for Vahit and bought a batch of his cotton that had been soiled in a truck accident.
Founded in the Dangara district of Tajikistan's Khatlon province in 2014 by China's Zhongtai Group and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, the company, with vigorous support from the Tajik government, aims to modernize the Tajik cotton industry and boost the local economy.
Zhongtai has a reason to be confident in its growth, considering that a suitable climate with adequate light and heat enables Khatlon to produce one of the best cotton varieties in the world, and its potential has yet to be fully tapped.
With more than 13,000 hectares of cotton fields provided by the Tajik government, Zhongtai has introduced advanced technologies from Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, which substantially increased the annual output of cotton in the area.
Under the scorching sun, sweeping green cotton fields stretch far off to the mountains in the distance.
Irrigation pipes neatly aligned across the fields water the cotton branches, in preparation for the harvest two months away.
"We have not only enhanced cotton-planting technologies but promoted the cotton and textile industrial chain and helped Tajikistan to expand its overseas market," said Zhao Jianlong, head of Zhongtai's general management department.
After the first and second stages of its project went into operation, Zhongtai set up an industry chain of cotton growing, ginning and spinning, which is "one of its kind" in the Central Asian country, Zhao said.
Expansion plans include extending Orolay's product line to cotton clothing and men's outerwear.
Sinograin has met its goal in reducing the inventory of cotton, soybeans and rapeseed oil in 2018, second year of its inventory-cutting drive, according to the company's general manager Deng Yiwu.
The company managed to reduce reserves in over 7,000 storehouses by 100 million metric tons of corn, 17 million metric tons of unhusked rice, 10.66 million metric tons of wheat, over 2 million metric tons of soybeans, 420,000 metric tons of rapeseed oil and 2.5 million metric tons of cotton, Deng said.
During the CIIE, NORINCO sealed the deals with governmental and business partners such as Guinean State Mining Co, Myanmar Economic Holdings Co, and other firms from Sudan and the United States to import cotton, copper, cobalt, bauxite and automobile lubricant oil to meet the demand of China's ongoing industrial and consumption upgrades.
"Agreements and contracts on grains, animal protein, iron ore and cotton will be signed during the CIIE, and each of the orders will be valued above $100 million, with the maximum reaching $500 million," said Liu.
Cai Wenke, chief shoemaker of Neiliansheng, a time-honored Chinese brand best known for its "thousand-layered" shoes made of cotton, thinks many people in Beijing still value their shoes.
"The "thousand-layered"－it is a gross exaggeration of the actual 30-40 layers－handmade cotton shoes were a luxury only the rich and the powerful could afford in the past.
This factor, coupled with Neiliansheng's fixation with black-and-white cotton shoes whose basic design hardly evolved for years, meant the brand was not among the fashion icons the younger generation of consumers craved.
Qingdao Ruichang Tech-Industrial Co was one of the first Chinese enterprises to grow cotton in Africa, entering the market in 2003.
In growing seasons, they sell seeds, fertilizers and pesticides on credit to growers, and then buy the cotton after harvest time.
This way, farmers can grow cotton and earn a living without investment, Liu said.
Before, he had struggled to afford seeds and fertilizer, but with the company's help he was harvesting 3 metric tons of cotton, earning almost $500 in that year.
China is the world's largest cotton importer, bringing in over 1.1 million tons last year.
Ruichang Tech operates in several African countries and has an annual output of at least 100,000 tons of unginned cotton - before the fiber is separated from the seeds and waste material - and 1,200 tons of cotton yarn.
In 2009, the company joined hands with the China-Africa Development Fund and Qingdao Hifu Textile Co to establish a joint venture, China-Africa Cotton Development.
Liu said Ruichang Tech brings its close relationship with local cotton growers and experience in international trade, while Hifu Textile specializes in equipment and management, and the China-Africa Development Fund provides financing.
It is now one of five major enterprises involved in cotton growing and processing in Mozambique, the second-largest cotton company in Zimbabwe, and has expanded its business to Mali.
Now the farm grows wheat, corn and cotton in Tajikistan and raises cows in Ukraine.
In Tajikistan, the farm has invested more than 200 million yuan ($31.6 million) in improving infrastructure and building cotton processing plants.
As a result, its average output of cotton reached 3.5 tons per hectare, 50 percent higher than local levels.
Organic cotton pads, whose topsheets are manufactured in Japan using organic cotton produced in the United States, were developed through R&D in China and launched in August.
We plan to increase the marketing and sales of liquid and organic cotton pads in smaller Chinese cities and rural areas as we have seen huge demand there," Yang said.
Dire Dawa mayor's office said Chinese firm Wuxi No 1 Cotton Mill will build the textile plant which will lie on 40 hectares of land.
As to the core businesses of grain, oil, sugar and cotton, their market shares are expected to account for more than 15 percent respectively, according to Wan.
Mickey Mouse's collection of Beijing Traditional Cotton shoes is a typical example, with a $200 price tag.
"COFCO will put its major focus on grain, oil, sugar and cotton," said COFCO President Yu Xubo.
"We will give priority to areas that matter with regard to the country's grain security, as well as add investment in the grain, oil, sugar and cotton to seize more global market share.
"China stands as the primary market for US agricultural exports and also ranks as the leading purchaser of US commodities like soybeans, corn and cotton, among others," he said.
According to the organizers, several projects involving agricultural products, cotton textiles and cashmere products were signed during this exhibition, demonstrating the multifaceted nature of the two countries' growing partnership.
The trains transport some 200 types of goods, including automobiles and parts, cotton yarn and timber.
Nautica Whitesail's parachute pants and Stussy's winter cotton jackets have seen their sales double on Tmall during the period.
The yarn was produced in a Vietnamese production line of the cotton yarn production giant Texhong International Group Limited and will be further processed to produce fabrics in China.
The organizers held 64 trade promotion activities in major local industries, such as green mining, grain and oil, cotton, textiles and clothing.
In addition to metals, crude oil, natural gas and grains, shipments to China from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa include passenger aircraft, timber, meat, steel, cotton, chemicals, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment.
Hog prices stayed flat, while cotton prices climbed 4.8 percent in the same period, NBS data showed.
Chinese companies will be able to export goods including mechanical and electrical products as well as clothing and footwear to Uganda more conveniently and efficiently, while Chinese consumers will enjoy more high-quality sesame, cotton, leather, coffee and other goods from Uganda.
The growth in foreign trade figures during this period indicates that China-Australia trade and economic relations have entered a phase of substantial improvement, with exports of wheat, cotton, iron ore and coal from Australia to China set to rise, said Chen Hong, director of the Australian Studies Center at East China Normal University in Shanghai.
These developments include the resumption of coal, cotton and copper trade and China's agreement to undertake an expedited review of duties on Australian barley.
ASEAN products such as silicone oil, non-woven fabrics, and cotton yarns are imported to China through Dongxing Port.
That's why most clothing factories here are using materials such as recycled cotton.
Liu Xin, deputy director of the industry department of the China National Textile and Apparel Council, said Xinjiang, a key cotton production base of China, has become an indispensable part of the global textile supply chain.
And for cotton sowing, one of Xinjiang's main industries, the comprehensive mechanization rate in most areas of the region exceeds 98 percent.
The inbound trains brought products including red wine, milk, barley, and cotton yarn from European and Asian countries.
They include processing aquatic products, cocoa, cotton yarn and fabrics, chemical fiber and stainless steel.
Last year, Xinjiang was the target of a series of such measures by Western anti-China forces, especially the US, which banned cotton and tomato products from the region over alleged human rights violations including "forced labor" and "genocide".
Despite these measures, Xinjiang produced 5.13 million metric tons of cotton in 2021, which accounted for 89.5 percent of China's total.
We will also step up efforts to boost the cotton and textiles industries while accelerating the process of building a national-level cotton yarn trade center," Arkin said.
China has exported products such as glassware, cotton, electronic components and diesel engines to ASEAN nations through the train service.
Since its launch in August 2017, the freight train service has transported a variety number of goods between China and ASEAN countries, including glass, cotton yarn, fruits, electronics, and daily necessities.
In November, the company reached a series of trade agreements on grain, oil seed, cotton, coffee, and packaged oil with a wide range of Chinese partners during the 4th China International Import Expo held in Shanghai.
- Cotton output in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region topped 5.1 million tons this year, maintaining its first rank in China for over two decades, according to the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS).
The amount accounts for 89.5 percent of the country's total cotton output.
Xinjiang has ranked first in China for more than 20 consecutive years in terms of total cotton output, per-unit yield, planting area and commodity allocation.
The cotton planting area in Xinjiang in 2021 reached 2.5 million hectares, accounting for 82.8 percent of the national planting area, according to the NBS.
With unique natural conditions, Xinjiang is the largest high-quality cotton production base in China and an important producer of the crop throughout the world.