Chinese Premier Wen
Jiabao visited Wuzhou in the Guangxi
Zhuang Autonomous Region?on Sunday, a city ravaged
by?its worst case of floods
in?a hundred?years last month.
Wen first visited soldiers working to reinforce a major dike and
thanked them for their rescue and salvage efforts.
During his visits to local residents and farmers whose homes and
crops were damaged by the floods, Wen told local officials to
ensure the continued supply of food, clothing and clean water to
them.
Massive floods following heavy rains hit 26 towns in the city
over the last month, affecting more than 1.27 million people and
causing heavy economic losses estimated at tens of millions of US
dollars.
(Xinhua News Agency July 4, 2005)
