No rain expected to ease Yangtze drought
By Wang Huazhong | China Daily | Updated: 2011-05-30 07:52
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Fishing boats are stranded on grassland, which was once the bed of Poyang Lake - China's largest fresh water lake, in Jiujiang, East China's Jiangxi province, on Saturday. Because of a severe drought, the area of Poyang Lake has shrunken to less than half its usual size. Zhang Haiyan / China News Service |
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