Photo taken on Aug. 22, 2010 shows a piece of dry paddyfield in Gaochang of Huaxi District, Guiyang City, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province. Plants in farmland of some 1,850 square kilometers in Guizhou suffer from drought due to hot weather and insufficient rainfall in recent days. Water supply for 630,200 people and 248,600 livestock was also affected.