VICE-PREMIER Hui Liangyu has called on flood and drought combating departments across China to make full preparations and take active measures to deal with possible disasters.
Hui, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said heavy rainfall has been reported in the valleys of the Yellow, Nenjiang and Songhua rivers and incessant, sustained high temperatures and drought have hit most of southern China recently.
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