BEIJING: China must act to prevent epidemics from breaking out in flood-hit areas of the country such as Heilongjiang and ensure a smooth return to agricultural production, state news agency Xinhua quoted vice premier Liu Guozhong as saying on Monday (Aug 14).
Damaged farmland, water conservation and other infrastructure will need to be quickly repaired to ensure a speedy recovery in grain production, Liu was quoted as saying.
Liu made the remarks while visiting the northeastern province of Heilongjiang where floods have swamped farmland, affecting hundreds of thousands of people in the past few days.
The country has had an unusually wet and rainy summer season with massive flooding in its northern and northeastern provinces, such as in Hebei where more than 1.5 million people had to be evacuated in early August.
“It is necessary to implement various assistance measures for people who have been lifted out of poverty (but have been) affected by the disaster, and resolutely prevent the return to poverty on a large scale,” Xinhua quoted Liu as saying.
Source: CNA
