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Shanghai, Mar 26 (EFE/EPA).- Several international clothing brands, including Hugo Boss and Asics, have vowed to continue buying Xinjiang cotton after reports of alleged human rights abused led West countries to impose sanctions on China."Xinjiang’s long-stapled cotton is one of the best in the world. We believe top quality raw materials will definitely show its value,” German luxury fashion house Hugo Boss said in a statement posted on its official Weibo account on Thursday night. (Camera: ALEX PLAVEVSKI).B-ROLL OF BURBURRY, HUGO BOSS AND FILA STORES IN SHANGHAI, CHINA.
Beijing, Mar 25 (EFE).- Several e-commerce platforms in China appear to have removed the Swedish clothing brand H&M from their sites, months after the company issued a statement saying it was "deeply concerned" about allegations of forced labor in Xinjiang and that it did not source its cotton from the province.Efe found Thursday that searches for the brand's stores and products on the platforms JD.com, Taobao, Tmall and Pinduoduo yielded no results. (Camera: ROMAN PILIPEY).B-ROLL OF THE H&M STORE AND THE NIKE STORE IN BEIJING, CHINA.
Drones were used to spray cotton fields with pesticide in Xinjiang, covering an area of more than 400,000 hectares. Farmers benefit significantly by replacing manual farming with machinery as drones are able to cover 40 times the area a human would be able to spray in a single day.
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