(YAO LEI)

A farmer pulls an ox to drink in a dried pool in Qianguang Village, Yuping County in southwest China's Guizhou Province, on July 29. Due to little rainfall and high temperature, lingering droughts have affected more than 12 million people in 38 counties in Guizhou.

More than 2 million people lack adequate supplies of drinking water, and a total of 847,300 hectares of farmland are damaged.