Northern China, still grappling with swollen rivers and floodwaters caused by Typhoon Doksuri two weeks ago, is preparing for more rains with the arrival of Typhoon Khanun.
Khanun has already battered parts of Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
On Thursday, China's northern Hebei province upgraded its emergency response to the highest level following record flooding last week in preparation for potentially damaging downpours from the newcomer.
Since late July, China's north and northeast have been struck by widespread flooding triggered by record rainfall in the wake of Doksuri.
Hebei, part of the Haihe River basin, northern China’s largest, was lashed by more than a year's rainfall last week, forcing the evacuation of more than 1.6 million people.
At a video conference studying the current situation, flood control authorities warned against "slacking" in strengthening inspection of flood channels and key levees, state media reported.
They also called for faster repair and restoration of key infrastructure and homes so that the lives of people can return to normal. China's cabinet on Tuesday said it would return flood victims to their homes by winter.
Khanun, forecast to enter China from its northeast on Saturday, is expected to bring heavy rainfall in northeastern Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces as soon as Friday.
The rain will heighten flooding risk in southeastern parts of Heilongjiang, where water levels are already high and its soil saturated following the previous round of rainfall, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Many rivers in the Songhua basin spanning northeastern China remained swollen as of Thursday.
In other parts of China not directly affected by Khanun such as Gansu and Qinghai in the northwest and Yunnan and Sichuan in the southwest, authorities renewed warnings of flash floods in an unusually wet summer in China.
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virusrex
Once again problems come from never before seen extreme weather events that the experts attribute to human activity derived climate change. Something that at this point have no valid rebuttal, which of course will not stop people trying to present themselves as experts saying there is no such thing as climate change, it does not increase extreme weather events or/and it is not produced by humans. Which can be useful to a point, when people is exposed to these false ideas in such open way they can see how they don't make sense and can recognize the dangers of climate change more easily, after all having people being openly irrational and obnoxious refuting the scientific consensus makes others less likely to share those mistaken ideas.
Rodney
Good luck. Many people live there. We should send aid.
gcFd1
China has been prone to typhoons for thousands of years based on historical records, so experts agree these are nothing new to the country.
virusrex
The article clearly says says these are events that broke records, that by definition means they are something new. No expert have said this is nothing new, that is completely your personal claim.
gcFd1
Your personal opinion, which is basically a conspiracy theory, that typhoons are new to China are basically laughable.
Let's see if the experts agree:
*China is one of the countries that have been continuously experiencing negative impacts by typhoons.*
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11069-015-1586-0
*This research comprehensively assesses the impact of typhoons across China by using the geographical information system based on time series data between 1980 and 2012.*
Not something new---obviously.
theFu
The Chinese record of storms and flooding say these are the worst floods in Chinese history. That's fact. There have been floods before. They were not this bad. There have been storms before. Not this bad. The CCP leaders are worried because many Chinese consider flooding a sign from god that leadership needs to change. It is superstition, but it would be good for China.
virusrex
That would be no conspiracy theory, not a personal opinion and specially nothing that I have ever claimed, this comes completey from your part when you find the actual claims (that the events are breaking records, not that thyphoons happened for the first time) impossible to attack, so you make up something that you can rebuke, even if nobody have said that.
A report published 8 years ago obviously have absolutely no relevance about what is happening right now, the article is clear, the experts whose opinion is included do say the events are breaking records, what evidence do you have they are wrong? obviously something from 8 years ago is not enough to do that.