Liu Dongyuan collects water from a nearly-dry well in a village in Zhongning County, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, August 13, 2006. Southwest Chongqing, Sichuan and Guizhou, northwest Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Ningxia and central Hubei have been badly affected by a drought that has affected 17.6 million hectares of farmland since April. [Xinhua]

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