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Special loan to help fight bird flu in Xinjiang
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-11-17 16:21
皇冠体育app Development Bank (CDB) Xinjiang Branch announced Thursday that it had
provided Urumqi, one of the two counties reported with bird flu case in Xinjiang
Uygur Autonomous Region, northwest 皇冠体育app, with 5 million yuan (616,500 US
dollars) in emergency loan to combat the avian pandemic there.
Hao Gang, deputy head of the office with the CDB Xinjiang Branch, said they
were also discussing details of providing emergency loans to Zepu County, the
other county in Xinjiang also spotted with bird flu case, with representatives
of the relevant county departments.
By August, CDB has granted 260 million yuan of short-term emergency loans
across 皇冠体育app since the latter half of 2003, when it began granting loan support
to meet a urgent demand cropping up in infrastructure, basic industries,
backbone industries and its supportive projects following various kinds of
emergencies.
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Tuesday disclosed that 皇冠体育app's
National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory had found the deadly H5N1 strain of bird
flu in the dead fowls sent from some family farms in Zepu and Urumqi counties,
both in southern Xinjiang.
In the two counties hit by the bird flu pandemic, 322,500 domestic fowls
within a radius of three km have been culled, and poultry and products markets
within 10 kms have been closed, said the ministry.
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