Li Zhi, a 70-year-old farmer, squats on a dry pond in a village in Fuyang, Anhui province, on Oct 23, 2019. Eleven cities in the province have suffered from drought due to high temperatures and little rainfall since September. As of Monday, a total of 412,700 hectares of crops have been affected by the lingering drought, causing direct economic losses of 1.61 billion yuan ($227 million). [Photo by Lu Qijian/For China Daily]
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