Premier Wen urges more efforts to fight floods
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has urged that more efforts be implemented to fight floods, while reassuring those residents living in areas ravaged by flooding and inspecting flood damage, during his visit to Wuzhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which has been plagued by torrential rains.
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani said on Wednesday that the flood disaster has posed a huge challenge to the country for which the whole nation has to rise to the occasion.The contribution towards helping the flood affected population should be beyond any political and social divide, said the Prime Minister while talking to a financial team led by Finance Minister Dr Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, which called on him here to discuss the financial situation vis-a-vis the needs of the flood affected areas.