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2010 extreme weather in China cost $75 billion, 4800 lives

by on 07. Feb, 2011 in Uncategorized

Song Lianchun, chief of the National Climate Center, said extreme weather last year caused the deaths of more than 4,800 people and resulted in direct economic losses of more than 500 billion yuan ($75 billion). He said 2010 was a freakish meteorological year for China, with severe weather hitting the country with a frequency and [...]