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How can there still be drought in the Sichuan province area with all that rain and snow in the last few months in China?

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Children put on a performance at the opening ceremony of the Qingming Cultural Festival in Kaifeng city, Henan province on April 3. The festival this year features performances, Song Dynasty (960-1279) dresses and honoring ancestors. Qingming Festival, or Tomb Sweeping Day- which falls on April 4 this year - is a national festival stretching back more than 2,500 years for people to honor and remember their deceased loved ones at cemeteries and memorials. [Photo/Xinhua]

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Students read books at a primary school in Liaocheng, East China's Shandong province, on April 1, 2013. To mark International Children Reading Day, students from the Media Technology Department of Shandong Liaocheng University met with 40 primary school students, during which volunteers helped and encouraged the children to develop good reading habits. [Zhao Yuguo/Asianewsphoto]

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A woman of the Miao ethnic group picks up tea leaves at a tea plantation in Huishui County of the Qiannan Buyi Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 4, 2013. Farmers here are busy with picking the "Qingming Tea" on the Qingming Festival as this kind of tea is regarded to have a better taste. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

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A car passes the toll gate of Southern Yangzhou Toll Station for free in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, just after the zero hour on April 4, 2013. Chinese government scrapped the expressway tolls for cars with seven seats or fewer on the three-day holidays from April 4 to 6 considering that mourners travel out to pay homage to the deceased. The Qingming Festival or tomb-sweeping day, which falls on April 4 this year, is a traditional Chinese holiday for mourning the dead. (Xinhua/Zhuang Jianxiang)

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Pedestrians walk past Nokia's flagship store in Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, east China, April 3, 2013. The retail store, which is Nokia's only stand-alone flagship store and the largest around the world, was found closed in recent days. (Xinhua/Lai Xinlin)

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Tang Wei, Wu Xiubo pose for their new comedy..."Finding Mr. Right". [fashion.news.cn]

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Singer Chang Hui-Mei, also known as "A-Mei", performs during her concert in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, March 30, 2013. The concert at Dragon Sport Center in Hangzhou is the end of her AMeiZING world tour which started in September 2011. (Xinhua/Wu Huang)

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British singer John Lydon performs with his band Public Image Limited (PiL) at a live show in Beijing, capital of China, March 30, 2013. The performance was the band's first show in China led by John Lydon, better known as Johnny Rotten from his days as lead singer in the British punk band Sex Pistols. (Xinhua/Xiao Xiao)

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - APRIL 03: Pedestrains with umbrellas pass a traffic light at night at the shopping distrct in Taipei's Hsin-yi district on April 3, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Taiwan's Center for Disease Control (CDC) staff stand at the entrance of Sungshan Airport in Taipei on April 4, 2013. Taiwan enhanced its level of alert against bird flu and set up a contingency centre after China's report of seven people infected with a new strain of avian influenza, including two deaths. AFP PHOTO / Sam Yeh

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A passenger (R) has her temperature checked by a Centers for Disease Control (CDC) staff member at the entrance of Sungshan Airport in Taipei on April 4, 2013. AFP PHOTO / Sam Yeh

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Dockworkers gather under a makeshift shelter during a strike outside Kwai Tsing container terminal 6 operated by Hong Kong International Terminals Ltd. in Hong Kong, China on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Billionaire Li Ka-shing?s Hong Kong International Terminals Ltd. is losing customers as a strike by dockworkers causes a 20-fold increase in vessel berthing times at the world's third-biggest container port. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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bd popeye said:

When the ground it is frozen it cannot absorb moisture. This is what the local Iowa weather folks have stated . The melting snow and rain just runs off. Here in eastern Iowa we are still in a drought even though we had plenty of moisture this winter. However, our rivers, streams and underground wells are fine. Dunno what happened in Sichuan.

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Equation said:

Whata beauty!

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) shakes hands with Myanmar's President U Thein Sein during a welcoming ceremony held by President Xi Jinping for President U Thein Sein in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, April 5, 2013. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)

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The combined photo taken on April 5, 2013 shows workers take encased live poultry out of the Sanguantang poultry and egg market in Shanghai, east China. The government of Shanghai Municipality said on Friday sales of live poultry will be suspended in the municipality from April 6 as the H7N9 strain of avian influenza has sickened 14 people and killed six. (Xinhua/Ding Ting)

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A woman wearing a "peony hat" poses for pictures with poenies at a park in Luoyang, central China's Henan Province, April 5, 2013. Poeny hats made of paper or tough silk have become popular in Luoyang, which was once an imperial capital for 13 dynasties through the Chinese history and is famous for its poenies. (Xinhua/Wang Song)

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China's Guo Chuan celebrates after returning home in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, April 5, 2013.

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China's Guo Chuan passes a finish buoy on his boat in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, April 5, 2013. Guo sailed back home on Friday morning to become the first Chinese to successfully circumnavigate the globe singlehanded. Aboard his Class40 yacht, 48-year-old Guo travelled about 21,600 nautical miles in 138 days before he returned to his hometown of Qingdao, where he set off on November 18 last year. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

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China's Guo Chuan (1st L) celebrates with his family after returning home in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, April 5, 2013. (Xinhua/Li Ziheng)

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China's Guo Chuan (R Front) walks with his family after returning home in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, April 5, 2013.

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An officer (1st L) offers service for a family from Taiwan who returned to hometown for tomb-sweeping at Mawei Port, southeast China's Fujian Province, April 4, 2013. A green channel is set up during the Qingming Festival to facilitate people from Taiwan who returned to Mazu and Mawei in Fujian for tomb-sweeping and mourning for their deceased family members. (Xinhua/Wei Peiquan)

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An officer from the China Immigration Inspection delivers a proposal for eco-friendly tomb-sweeping to a man from Taiwan in Fuzhou, capital of southeast China's Fujian Province, April 4, 2013.

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A memorial ceremony was held for 83 victims in the March 29 landslide in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on Thursday, as rescuers continued their search for the remaining missing amid snowy weather. [Chinanews]

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| Women wearing face masks walk at the Bund along the Huangpu River in downtown Shanghai April 5, 2013. Chinese authorities were slaughtering birds at a poultry market in the financial hub Shanghai as the death toll from a new strain of bird flu mounted to six on Friday, spreading concern overseas and sparking a sell-off on Hong Kong's share market. All of the 14 reported infections from the H7N9 bird flu strain have been in eastern China and at least four of the dead are in Shanghai, a city of 23 million people and the showpiece of China's vibrant economy. REUTERS/Aly Song

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A worker spays disinfectant liquid on to chicken cages at a wholesale market on Thursday, April 4, 2013, in Shanghai, China. In a worrisome sign, a bird flu in China appears to have mutated so that it can spread to other animals, raising the potential for a bigger threat to people, scientists said Wednesday. (AP Photo)

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A woman looks at an electronic display showing the closing figure of the Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong, China, on Friday, April 5, 2013. Hong Kong stocks fell, with the benchmark index dropping to its lowest level since November on concern an outbreak of bird flu that has killed six people in China may cause an epidemic. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Dockworkers gather and clap under a makeshift shelter during a strike outside Kwai Tsing container terminal 6 operated by Hong Kong International Terminals Ltd. in Hong Kong, China on Wednesday, April 3, 2013. Billionaire Li Ka-shing's Hongkong International Terminals Ltd. is losing customers as a strike by dockworkers causes a 20-fold increase in vessel berthing times at the world?s third-biggest container port. Photographer: Jerome Favre/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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Chinese President Xi Jinping (L, front) holds a welcoming ceremony for visiting Zambian President Michael Chilufya Sata ahead of their talks in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province, April 6, 2013. (Xinhua/Pang Xinglei)

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Rescuers work at a flooded coal mine in Weng'an County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 6, 2013. Nine miners were trapped underground and 32 others were lifted out of the mine shaft safely after a flooding occurred at the Yunda Coal Mine on early Saturday morning. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

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Relatives of trapped miners wait outside of a flooded coal mine in Weng'an County, southwest China's Guizhou Province, April 6, 2013.

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Health workers leave the A9 isolation wards at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong, south China, April 5, 2013. An offcial of Hong Kong's Hospital Authority said on Friday that a seven-year-old girl in Hong Kong was reported the symptom of fever and received treatment at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, who had been in close contact with birds in Shanghai last month. And the result whether she is infected with H7N9 virus is expected to come out Friday night. (Xinhua/Lui Siu Wai)

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A Chinese doctor (R) examines the ear of a female patient at the Hann/Mer Medical Center in Darkar, capital of Senegal, March 31, 2013. The 14th Chinese medical team in Senegal provided free medical service and medication to local people in Dakar on March 31. (Xinhua/Wang Meng)

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A Chinese doctor (R) asks a female patient about her symptoms, with the help of his Senegalese peer (L), at the Hann/Mer Medical Center in Darkar, capital of Senegal, March 31, 2013.

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Fans wave fluorescent staffs during a charity concert of pop band Mayday from southeast China's Taiwan in Beijing, capital of China, late April 5, 2013.(Xinhua/Ma Ping)

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Ashin (2nd L), lead singer of pop band Mayday from southeast China's Taiwan, performs during a charity concert in Beijing, capital of China, late April 5, 2013. (Xinhua/Ma Ping)

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Doctor He Minxuan from the University of California at Berkeley shows her certificate after the awarding ceremony of Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Overseas at the consulate general of the People's Republic of China at San Francisco, April 5, 2013. All together 20 students from the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Washington University, University of California at Davis and Washington State University won the scholarship. (Xinhua/Liu Yilin)

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - APRIL 06: American actor Tom Cruise signs his autographs for fans as he arrives at the Taiwan premiere of 'Oblivion' on April 6, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - APRIL 06: Ukrainian-born actress and model Olga Kurylenko poses for a photograph as she arrives at the Taiwan premiere of 'Oblivion' on April 6, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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TAIPEI, TAIWAN - APRIL 06: Director Joseph Kosinski, Olga Kurylenko and Tom Cruise attend the Taiwan premiere of 'Oblivion' on April 6, 2013 in Taipei, Taiwan.

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