Migrant cotton pickers prepare to board a train in the Xi’am Railway Station in Xi’an, capital of northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, Sept. 4, 2012. A special train carrying about 1,200 cotton pickers departed for Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday evening. The Xi’an Railway Bureau is expected to send 150,000 cotton pickers this year. <Xinhua/Li Yibo>
