A resident displays withered cole seedlings at Zhangbai Village in Sanyuan County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, Feb. 3, 2009. Shaanxi Province is an important production area of grain crops of China in summers, but nine cities of the province encountered drought as there was no rainfall since mid-November. So far, 1.17 million people each day are engaged in field irrigation, with more than 60,000 irrigation facilities operated. [Xinhua] |