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| Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao inspects the flood situation in Wuchang of Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province, July 23, 2010. (Xinhua/Huang Jingwen) |
He also urged local governments to ensure daily necessities for the affected people and to strive to restore normal life and production at an early date.
Local governments should speed up construction of embankments of small and medium-sized rivers and consolidate small reservoirs to enhance their flood control capabilities, he said.
Local Communist Party of China (CPC) committees and governments must enforce flood control accountability and severely punish those whose performances were lax, he said.
Floods in China this year had left 742 people dead and 367 missing as of Friday, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters.
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