Loans have also been granted for water conservation projects. This year they amount to between 40,000 and 50,000 yuan. The workers are all drought victims. Every day each worker earns 1.5 kg of millet in wages and he can save some of this for his family.

• 有的是水利贷款，今年修渠贷款即达四五万元，工人全系灾民，每人每天三斤小米的工资，可以节余一部分养家。