	china says possible good harvest despite drought china s summer  harvest may be good despite a serious drought because the state council cabinet has spent one billion yuan on irrigation and other anti drought work a hong kong newspaper said wen hui bao said the drought which has affected shanxi hebei henan and shandong the most has eased with march rains in south china and march snowfall in the north and as some new irrigation projects have come into use if the drought does not worsen there is hope for a bumper harvest it quoted experts of the ministry of electric power as saying they gave no figures the summer  harvest was a record mln tonnes up from mln in out of a total  harvest of mln the target is mln reuter 
