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China: Drought: 2015/05 Country Information on DRR

Period 2015/05
Country or District China
Event Type Drought
Outline More than a million people in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region have been affected by drought that has lingered since May 2015.
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Xinhua 2015/08/17
Some 170,000 hectares of cropland have been damaged by the drought, with 50 hectares totally destroyed. Autumn harvest yields in the region are expected to be greatly reduced.