The man was standing in the street and shouting orders at six or seven workers, who were moving an umbrella over twelve meters long onto a truck. The street was packed with spectators.

Green Dam filters words and images as well as web addresses.

The office also gave a breakdown of the death toll in other areas as 4,156 in Chengdu, 2,586 in Guangyuan, 2,871 in Aba and 23 in Ya'an.

Plans have been made to build an interconnection with Maputo and it is expected that 300 MW will be exported to Mozambique from the Inga dam.

In June, China issued an edict that would have required all new computers sold domestically to include filtering software, known as Green Dam Youth Escort.