Rain continued to pelt northeastern China in the wake of Typhoon Doksuri Saturday, as authorities reported more fatalities and missing people while evacuating thousands more.
One person died and five went missing in the city of Shulan in Jilin province, which has seen five straight days of rainfall, according to state media.
Over 14,300 people were evacuated from the city of more than 700,000, according to the local disaster relief agency. State news agency China News Service showed images of waterlogged streets around homes and factories. The average precipitation in the city had reached 111.7 mm (4.4 inches) by Friday afternoon.
China is struggling with record-breaking rainfall in some areas while others suffer scorching summer heat and drought that threatens crops. The heavy rains - remnants of Typhoon Doksuri - have battered northern China since late July, disrupting the lives of millions. Flooding near Beijing and in neighboring Hebei province this week killed at least 22 people.
In northeastern Heilongjiang province, which is known as China’s “great northern granary,” rain inundated farms and flooded streets, leading to the evacuation of thousands.
In the city of Shangzhi, heavy rainfall turned roads into rivers and inundated thousands of households.
National emergency management authorities said 25 rivers across Heilongjiang threatened to burst their banks, while disaster relief groups have been dispatched to the province.
In Heilongjiang’s capital of Harbin, more than 53,000 people had to be evacuated as multiple reservoirs and rivers exceeded safety levels while some 41,600 hectares (103,000 acres) of crops were damaged.
In the city of Yushu in Jilin province, about 120 kilometers south of Harbin, flooding forced the evacuation of around 19,000 people.
Meanwhile, in Hebei province around Beijing, which saw some of the region's worst flooding in the past few weeks, authorities issued fresh alerts for rainstorms on Saturday.
Floodwaters in Zhuozhou, southwest of Beijing started to recede Saturday, state media reported, allowing some of the 125,000 evacuated residents to return to their homes.
The death toll in the 11 million-strong city of Baoding reached 10 while another 18 people are still missing, local authorities said Saturday.
Floods damaged roads and washed away bridges in the city’s Yesanpo Scenic Area, a national park known for its gorges and mountains.
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Rodney
We should send aid.
PTownsend
Sadly the Chinese people have to suffer because the CCP will continue being stuck in thefossil era and they will use the resources they control to prevent other nations from developing alternatives to burning huge amounts of fossil fuels
opheliajadefeldt
The true extent of this disaster is being hidden from the Chinese people and the rest of the world, and believe me it is monumental. The CCP have carried out some truly deplorable acts here, like releasing flood water into very vunerable areas to relieve the flooding in Beijing, which resulted in huge ares being deluged with any thing like 6 to 12 metre of floods. They did this in the dead of night so as to keep it secret, the result, countless thousands are homeless and all their possessions have been washed away.
theFu
If they admit to thousands, it must be REALLY bad and probably 10x more. Sadly, to the CCP, life is cheap. Just another way to control population.
This is the perfect opportunity for socialism with Chinese characteristics to show the world how great it is. They have a huge army. Put them to work with disaster response, not bullying Chinese and other countries like Taiwan.
Rodney
what? The worlds biggest exporter of solar and green technology?
TaiwanIsNotChina
You should know that means exactly nothing for a country built on exports.
TokyoLiving
OK kid... Lol..
PTownsend
The CCP nabobs might export materials for green energy to pad their fate bank accounts but continue burning coal at home because they care nothing about their own people, little different from other authoritarian states
theFu
Videos of Beijing flooding. https://youtu.be/SKimlKo6C5Y 3 ft of water in Tienanmen Square. Tofu construction failures.
The CCP is covering up bridge failures in Beijing and elsewhere. Not just online, but blocking views by people in the area. Chinese govt priority was to sensor the bridge locations and setup barrier shields to prevent videos. The video shows rescue workers, not rescuing anybody, but setting up barriers instead.
Chinese newspapers ignore the flooding. which are the worst flooding in Chinese history, in-the-capitol-city! They downplay everything, if there is any coverage.
They don't show the Chinese submarine washed up on the shore from the flooding either.
When will the CCP actually tell the truth?
deanzaZZR
@Fu Since you seem to be obsessed with China, I suggest you learn Chinese if you haven't already. Take a look at China's most watched news program Xinwen Lianbo (新闻联播) published on August 3rd. Reports on the flooding start @1:50 and continue on until @8:50. It then continues with a story about the army helping in rescue operations.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFgjGkfOdMU
Desert Tortoise
A touch of exaggeration here. Everyone knows I am no fan of the CCP but dam operators have to release water to prevent the dam from over topping, which almost always leads to complete failure of the dam. US dam operators have had to make identical decisions during weather extremes. We have seen examples in the US of dam operators having to conduct an emergency release of water, causing downstream flooding when sinkholes erupted on dams threatening the collapse of the dam. How about all the flooding downstream of Oroville Dam when they had a spillway problem a few years ago? Never a good thing for a dam operator to be caught out by extreme weather and have no place to store flood waters but it happens.
theFu
deanzaZZR ... for the largest flood in Chinese history the news should be covered with it 24/7. Providing a link to a state-propaganda channel isn't exactly a good news source. The examples shown are to minimize the true flooding levels. Seeing aid workers on sunny, non-flooded streets isn't the reality. The army carrying supplies to villages is good. No denying that.
Where are all the bridges over rivers that have been washed away? They show 2 in that story. There are areas in Beijing with 2-6 meters of water.
I've seen videos of the "army rescue operations". They showed some people being rescued off a roof, while 2 people were on the street below in ankle deep water, watching. Why don't they show the thousands of others who are trapped and buildings filling with flood waters? It is careful propaganda. Show a little bad stuff, but not all of it. Censor the millions of videos being put online showing flooding of national sites, like Tienanmen Square. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LbLXRtGoDg
Why does every story have to include what Xi thinks about it? In the past, when god brought floods onto China, it was reason for a change of leadership.