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100m yuan for drought control
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-22 08:54
The Chinese central government has allocated 100 million yuan (1.25 million
U.S. dollars) in emergency aid for the areas hit hard by droughts in this
spring-ploughing season, the Ministry of Finance said Tuesday.
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A woman in Longhua
District, Haikou the capital of China's southernmost province of Hainan,
looks on Friday at her crops, which have been ruined by the drought
affecting the island since last summer. The drought has hit 180,000
hectares of crops on some 43 per cent of the province's cultivated land.
More than 291,000 people are also experiencing some difficulty in
obtaining drinking water.
[newsphoto]
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The ministry said the areas
cover South and Southwest China and northwestern part of North China and eastern
part of Northwest China.
Reduced rainfall in south and southwest China since last winter caused fall
of water levels of rivers and reservoirs in the regions, leaving some of those
regions hit hard by droughts, said the ministry.
Meanwhile, little rainfall in northwestern part of North China and eastern
part of Northwest China resulted in widespread droughts, said the
ministry.
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