Photo of a flooded river in China by Flickr user ajft, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic
Xinhua news agency reports on the disaster prevention efforts in Southern China, where workers have been mobilized around the clock to check the dykes and other flood-control systems in an attempt to ensure that losses are kept to a minimum.
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