Passage: By August, CDB has granted 260 million yuan of short-term emergency loans across China since the latter half of 2003, when it began granting loan support to meet a urgent demand cropping up in infrastructure, basic industries, backbone industries and its supportive projects following various kinds of emergencies. The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) Tuesday disclosed that China's National Avian Flu Reference Laboratory had found the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu in the dead fowls sent from some family farms in Zepu and Urumqi counties, both in southern Xinjiang.
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