Persistant drought hits parts of China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-08-14 15:23
Liu Dongyuan collects water from
a nearly-dry well in a village in Zhongning County, northwest China's Ningxia
Hui Autonomous Region, August 13, 2006. Southwest Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou,
northwest Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Ningxia and central Hubei have been badly
affected by a drought that has affected 17.6 million hectares of farmland since
April. [Xinhua]
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