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BEIJING, Dec. 28 -- Disaster weather and ensuing calamities have claimed 2,704 lives and inflicted economic losses of 212 billion yuan this year, a meteorological official said here on Thursday.

The damage China suffered this year came only next to the 1998 when an extremely severe flood ravaged the country, Director Qin Dahe of the China Meteorological Administration told a work conference in Beijing

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