Chinese vice premier calls for ensuring bumper harvest after flooding

ZHENGZHOU, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier Liu Guozhong has called for efforts to minimize the damage to agricultural production caused by recent torrential rain and flooding and to ensure a bumper harvest this autumn.

Liu, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during an investigation and research trip in central China's Henan Province f