Macao Special Administrative Region (MSAR)
and
Guangdong Province are to form a joint task force in a bid to
solve the current salinity crisis.
A press release issued yesterday by Macao's Information Bureau
said Chief Executive Edmund Ho Hau Wah and Zhang
Dejiang, secretary of Guangdong Provincial Committee of the
Communist Party of China (CPC),
agreed to set up the team during their meeting earlier the day.
They held the meeting in Beijing on the sidelines of the Fourth
Session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC).
Macao, counting the water supply on Xijiang River that is
originated in Guangdong, has long been enduring the salinity crisis
caused by the intake of the seawater during the winter season.
However, the salinity crisis this year is the worst in
history.
(Xinhua News Agency March 5, 2006)