Quotable

Local people have sacrificed a lot to ensure the safety of downstream areas, and we won't open the gate dam to allow water until we have to. Safety will be ensured when we have to do so. But flood retention cannot worsen people's livelihoods here, and we must work together to lead a better life."

Premier Li Keqiang, said during a visit to flooded areas in Anhui and Hunan provinces on July 5.

"Normally, there are strict procedures regarding the use and launch of a missile in any military, and the Taiwan military should also have such procedures. But the fact that a large missile was misfired shows these procedures were poorly executed and officers' orders had little authority."

Gao Zhuo, a military observer in Beijing speaking after a fisherman was killed and three others injured after their boat was hit by a Hsiung Feng III missile fired by a Taiwan navy corvette from Zuoying Harbor in Kaohsiung on July 1.

(China Daily European Weekly 07/08/2016 page2)