In view of the farmers' perceptions of climate change, we discuss the effectiveness or the lack of adaption behaviors which will be in a better position to provide scientific methods and decision-making on the district-level policies for combating climate change. According to the investigated data from 600 farmer households in Yutian County, Xinjiang Wei Autonomous Region, the article quantitatively analyzed the influencing factors on the farmers' perception and the preferences for the adapting behaviors of climate change by building the Heckman model. Results show that some variables have significant impacts on the farmers' perception of climate change, including the gender of householder, time length of engaging in agriculture, annual household net income, social networks, trust in information sources, nearness to water sources and climatic factors. Further, the variables such as the head of household gender, time length of engaging in agriculture, annual household net income, lending capacity, social networks, nearness to the water sources and climatic factors have significant impacts on the adapting behaviors. It is proposed that the local government must play a district-level leading role in the process of policy making and policy implementing. At the same time, the local government should make a variety of relevant policies to cultivate the farmers' self-development ability to combat climate change and ultimately achieve the comprehensively sustainable development of ecological, economy and society.