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To: RealMuLan who wrote (4361)	2/10/2005 2:17:23 PM
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China to invest in meteorological disaster forecast radars: [World News]: Beijing, Feb 9 : China plans to invest 72 million US dollars for the installation of 30 new-generation Doppler weather radars in 2005 as part of nation-wide disaster early warning system. In the coming three years, 84 such radars will be installed, forming a nationwide climate monitoring network with 158 Dopplers. By 2008, the network will play a leading role in forecasting imminent meteorological disasters and the density of radars is second only to that of the United States, Xinhua news agency quoted the director of the Forecast and Disaster Control Department of the China Meteorological Bureau (CMB), Zhang Guocai as saying. In 2004 alone, natural disasters brought 89.48 billion yuan (10.8 billion US dollars) of direct economic loss on China's agriculture, with 67.95 million acres of crops affected, the CMB figures show. The existing 74 Doppler radars in China led to timely and accurate forecasts of two typhoons in the summer of 2004, which enabled nearly one million people to evacuate in advance. PT news.newkerala.com