A group led by Prof. Zhang Xiling at the Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS integrated the new high-quality cotton strain CCRI 641 and the new planting pattern of "wide-early-fine". The production mode was applied in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in 2018 and increased the yield by more than 20 percent. Significant breakthroughs were made in "good methods going together with elite cultivars" and in the "combination of agricultural machinery and agronomic practices".