China reports three more flood deaths; 1,000 evacuated near damaged dikes
Hard engineering:The river basically formed a flood control project system of “Upstream hold the water, and the downstream released the water”, which this system aims at separating the river discharge. On the main stream of the Yellow River, the first dam of the Yellow River, the Sanmenxia ...
The impact of the recent natural disasters in Afghanistan has been devastating, with heavy rains and flash floods claiming over 80 lives and leaving several hundreds homeless over the past month. In Herat province, the situation remains dire, with seven deaths and 150 houses destroyed in the late...
Data released by the Ministry of Water Resources showed that the number of deaths or missing persons due to flood disasters decreased from 1,149 in 2013 to 279 in 2020.■ Emergency response personnel conduct operations at a simulated explosion site during a drill in Jinhua City, east China's ...
The 1998 flood season claimed over 4,100 lives. ‘Township and village enterprises’ in agriculture comprise enterprises previously run by the communes of the Maoist era, co-operatives run by rural labourers and individual firms of a certain size. There were 1,786 state farms in 2012 with 3...
Death rate: 6.74 deaths/1,000 population Net migration rate: -0.39 migrant(s)/1,000 population Infant mortality rate: 28.08 deaths/1,000 live births Life expectancy at birth:total population: 71.62 yearsmale: 69.81 yearsfemale: 73.59 yearsTotal fertility rate: 1.82 children born/woman ...
The number of deaths of people who had been living with HIV/AIDS in 2014 was 21,000. In the first half of 2003 China was struck by an epidemic of a pneumonia- type virus identified as SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). The virus was first detected in southern China and was ...
Lakes and wetlands have been severely damaged, resulting in a severe decline in ecological functions such as flood control, water conservation, climate regulation, and biodiversity maintenance, which in turn has led to frequent droughts in the region, making it an impossible place for a variety of...
Travelling during the Spring Festival/Chinese New Year is incredibly difficult. Chinese New Year is China's Christmas, so the millions of migrant workers and students flood back to their home towns. Everybody else takes the opportunity to spend their hong bao (gifts of money traditionally given ...
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