NANCHANG, June 15 (Xinhua) -- A total of 12 people were killed and three were still missing as of 7:00 p.m. Thursday as rain-triggered floods hit eastern China's Jiangxi Province, local authorities said Saturday. Nearly 3 million residents have been affected, with 229,000 relocated and ...
Locals are bracing for another typhoon that is expected to hit north-eastern China on August 11th, after passing through North Korea. At least 61 people are known to have died; the toll will rise as others are still missing. China’s state-run media are full of stories of heroic ...
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YANGZHOU, July 14, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Bikers travel in heavy rain in Yangzhou, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 14, 2016. Heavy rain hit most parts of Jiangsu as the National Meteorologival Center issued a blue rainstorm alert on Thursday. (Xinhua/Meng Delong) BEIJING/HEFEI, July 14 (...
disasters,such as floods,droughts,mudrock flows,earthquakes and typhoons.Some disasters did great damage to people’s life,one of which was Typhoon Meranti.It hit Fujian Province and Zhejiang Province in September,2016,leaving 28 people dead and 15 others missing in the two Eastern Chinese ...
After this flood, the local administration divided the main flood channel and built protective embankment and ditches in the eastern part of the province to reduce the flow of floodwater to the center of the province. Since then, the flood water flows through the eastern part of the city. ...
Wang Weiyue, a meteorological analyst at Weather China, warned of a sudden shift between drought conditions and flooding. As the rain belt moves northward, some areas in southern China will experience less precipitation and hotter temperatures. Meanwhile, areas of southern and eastern Hubei, central...
leading to a massive flood. Flood would wipe out the crops of Central and Eastern China, causing regional starvation. Roughly 30,000 square miles of land were flooded in the coming days, creating millions of refugees. Food shortages led to riots and a spike in crime as civil discourse collap...
This is one of the latest efforts made by authorities in emergency response to floods that have recently hit some of China's central, eastern, southern, southwestern and northeastern regions. As of Tuesday, the National Fire and Rescue Administration had dispatched 219 rescue workers and 72 fire...
The government is set to declare a state of natural disaster to speed up the clean-up process and allow emergency funds to be released to the stricken region, it added. The ministry stressed "everyone must remain vigilant" as heavy downpours were predicted to hit eastern zones of Haute-Corse...