China Suffering Drought

While the Southeast of China is suffering floods caused by relentless storms like lastest Saomei, other parts are struck by persistant drought

Two children play in a dried-up pool at Xiniushi Village in Daying County of Suining City, southwest China's Sichuan Province, Sunday, Aug. 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.

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