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The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth.

The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth.

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CHONGQING, China--Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after Chinas driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width.

Reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels.

CHONGQING, China (AP) — Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China's driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

The disturbance adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting when President Xi Jinping is expected to try to award himself a third five-year term as leader.

Reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels.