Morigen River of Hulunbuir Grassland. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

People are busy picking grapes in a vineyard in Xinjiang during a good harvest year. Xinjiang spared no efforts in building agricultural water-saving projects by using techniques such as anti-seepage ditches, low-voltage tube irrigation, sprinkling irrigation and microirrigation to transport the qualified water to farmlands, orchards and greenbelts. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

After over 10 years of construction, the farm of the 90th Regiment in Alataw Pass of Xinjiang has developed the mature technology of under-film drip irrigation, which provides technical support for planting cotton on a large scale in the arid and sandy areas of Xinjiang. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

Turpan of Xinjiang spares no efforts in developing agricultural facilities that are centered on "running water", and successfully constructed a circular economy that matches the reality of its water resources, resulting a parallel development of agriculture with industry and tourism. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]

Prior to the spring seeding, farmers from a rural area of Xinjiang are busy adding anti-seepage features to ditches in order to save water and cope with drought on March 27, 2007. [Photo/All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese and China Intercontinental Press]