Construction of River Banks and Dykes Reported ĦĦĦĦMajor river banks and dykes have to be reinforced and those that had been destroyed by floods have to be rebuilt, this has been known from a circular released by Vice Minister Zhang Jiyao of the Ministry of Water Conservancy Construction at the news conference held in Beijing on January 10. According to Vice Minister Zhang, the stress of construction and reinforcement of various works to be reinforced or rebuilt as those said should be placed most of all on construction quality. High demands should be raised and to ensure this strict measures and regulations must be worked out to absolutely rule out any possible sloppy job or work failure. ĦĦĦĦ Economicnews 1999-01-11 Page2 Full Story in Chinese