Chinese Government Creates Center to Control, Modify Weather

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A national command center for weather modification will be built before 2010 to coordinate the practices of rainmaking and hail suppression around the country.

Thirty of the country's 34 provinces, municipalities, autonomous regions and special administrative regions and 1,952 of about 2,900 counties have been involved in such operations and they are equipped with 7,113 anti-aircraft guns, 4,991 special rocket launchers and more than 32,300 people, figures from the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said.

Weather modification is even being used to help Beijing prevent a downpour forecast for the opening day of the 2008 Olympics.

Having a national command center and experimental base will better protect the country against extreme weather conditions, the report quoted an unnamed official from the meteorological office as saying.

Consideration is also being given to the health and safety of those involved in modification efforts.

The county has four such guns for use in weather modification.
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