As of May 12, 2020, a total of 809 cotton processing enterprises in the Xinjiang cotton region have participated in the notarization inspection of the new system in 2019/20, with a total of 5.1071 million tons of public inspections, a decrease of 29,700 tons compared with the same period in 2018/19. A decrease of 0.58%. However, it is worth noting that from March to April, the number of lint cotton processing and public inspections in Xinjiang cotton areas increased significantly compared with the same period last year. Mainly affected by the new crown epidemic, not only the acquisition, processing, and transportation of Xinjiang seed cotton were paused, but also the processing in mainland contracted workshops personnel cannot return to Xinjiang. As Xinjiang gradually opened up in mid-March, road transportation gradually returned to normal, and the acquisition, processing and warehousing inspection of ginning plants resumed.
As the total amount of cotton inspection in Xinjiang gradually comes to light, it is urgent to accurately calculate the total output of Xinjiang cotton areas in 2019/20. The author’s opinion is that it is slightly higher than 5.2 million tons, which is the same as in 2018/19. On par. The first is that before mid-September to October 2019, a small amount of high horse value and high color grade wadding from ginning factories in Nanjiang, Dongjiang and other places was directly transported out of Xinjiang by truck without public inspection (the flow direction was Henan, Chongqing, Zhejiang, Sichuan, Shandong and other places), but the total volume is less than that of 2016/2017 or 2018/19, about 30,000-40,000 tons; secondly, textile enterprises in Xinjiang directly purchase lint from ginneries instead of cotton supervision warehouses , saving both cost and time. This part of the transaction is mainly concentrated in November and December and is dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises. Based on the number of spindles, enterprise size and annual cotton consumption in Xinjiang, it generally does not exceed 30,000 tons; thirdly, some cotton processing enterprises do not batch lint cotton (including wadding, etc.) are unpacked and retailed locally, with a quantity of about 15,000-20,000 tons (the estimate has a certain error). Therefore, the author estimates that the total cotton output in Xinjiang in 2019/20 may be between 5.20 million and 5.22 million tons. </p
