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Heavy snowfall helps ease drought in N China
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-02-19 14:01

Heavy snowfall helps ease drought in N China

　　Two Chinese elders wash their body with winter snow prior to swim at an open pool during a snowfall in the costal city of Dalian, northeast China's Liaoning Province, Feb. 18, 2009. Rain and snowfall have helped ease a severe drought in northern and eastern China. (Xinhua/Lv Wenzheng)