Across China: Liaoning

Drought alert

More than 900,000 people in northern China's Shanxi and Liaoning provinces are suffering from a drinking water shortage due to an ongoing drought, local officials said yesterday.

The flood control and drought relief headquarters in Shanxi said the drought caused a drinking water shortage for 670,000 people and 200,000 livestock, with the cities of Datong and Shuozhou being the worst affected.