• China Daily via Reuters

    Workers install a high voltage electricity pylon in Xuancheng, Anhui province, China on May 17. China will raise the prices for electricity coal-fired generators sell to grid operators by 0.02 yuan per kilowatt hour in three provinces, state media reported on Wednesday, in an effort to encourage generators to increase supplies amid spreading shortages.

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  • Anti-aircraft gun fired at clouds to ease drought in central China

    AP

    Reserve army soldiers fire artillery shells in an attempt to create precipitation to ease drought conditions in Luoyang in central China's Henan province on Feb. 9. China is sending relief teams to eight drought affected provinces that grow more than two-thirds of the country's wheat.

    Reuters

    A farmer displays a withered vegetable on a dried field on the outskirts of Huaibei, Anhui province on Feb. 9. China's wheat-growing areas have been hit by a drought, though this year's situation is less serious than in 2008/2009.

    By David R Arnott, NBC News

    According to Reuters, soldiers working for the local "weather modification department" shot chemical rounds into clouds from an anti-aircraft gun to increase snow in Luoyang, Henan province. Wheat output in China, the world's largest producer and consumer of the grain, may be at risk after severe winter drought in its main northern producing regions, the United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organisation said.

  • Jianan Yu / Reuters

    People queue to buy laba porridge at a temple during the Laba Festival in Hefei, Anhui province, January 11. The Laba Festival, which falls on the eighth day of the twelfth month of the lunar Chinese calendar, commemorates the date of Sakyamuni Buddha's enlightenment. Having laba porridge during the Laba Festival is believed to bring good fortune.

    Lucky porridge at the Laba Festival in Hefel

    By Elena Grothe

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