China's Tobacco Industry Deals with Natural Disasters

摘要

The tobacco industry of China, with production hampered by lingering adverse weather, is striving to fight off natural disasters and guarantee sufficient tobacco crops for cigarette production in the current year. From the autumn of 2009 to early 2010, southwest China — the largest tobacco-growing zone in the country — was visited by a protracted drought, the most severe recorded for 100 years since the start of meteorological records in the region, together with high temperatures. In particular, tobacco-producing Yunnan province had a lingering drought that lasted from autumn through to the next spring. In most parts of neighboring Guizhou and Sichuan provinces and in Guangxi region, the drought also lasted for more than five months. Likewise, there were also droughts in Shandong province in east China, Henan province in central China and Gansu province in northwest China.