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	China creates rains in drought-hit provinces

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2-8-2009 11:33 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/32872a22-7533-49e5-9efd-b56ed3bd3f37/F302884E-6D1D-448D-93E5-8371C1481A4F/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm" href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">news.xinhuanet.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm">China creates rains in drought-hit provinces
            </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="48%"><SPAN class="style5"><A class="style4" href="http://www.chinaview.cn/index.htm"><FONT color="#000000">www.chinaview.cn</FONT></A></SPAN><SPAN class="hui12"> <SPAN class="lanx121"><FONT color="#333333"><IMG height="5" width="13" src="http://imgs.xinhuanet.com/icon/2006english/2007korea/space.gif" /></FONT></SPAN>
                  <FONT color="#000000"><B>2009-02-08 16:04:35</B></FONT>
              </SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm">China employed artificial means to create rains in at least 
seven provinces on Saturday to alleviate rare drought, the China Meteorological 
Administration (CMA) said Sunday. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm">Local weather-control officials had fired a total of 
2,392 artillery shells and launched 409 rockets in 127 cloud-seeding operations 
by 10 p.m. Saturday, according to a statement on the CMA website. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm">Rain-enhancing practices were adopted in such 
drought-stricken provincial regions as Henan, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, 
Hubei and Anhui, it said. 
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm">n central China's Henan, artificial precipitation 
brought on average 0.5 millimeters of rainfall to 17 counties and cities. The 
province, a major wheat-producing area, is suffering the worst drought in half a 
century.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10782718.htm"><FONT id="Zoom">    The foul weather had affected 161 million mu (10.7 
million hectares) of crops, 4.37 million people and 2.1 million heads of 
livestock across the country as of Thursday. </FONT></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F302884E-6D1D-448D-93E5-8371C1481A4F/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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