China’s northern and western regions grappled with heavy rains after floods devastated central and southern China, causing landslides and mass displacements in their wake.
Red alerts for intense rainstorms issued by China’s national weather bureau early on July 4 covered provinces ranging from Sichuan in the southwest to Liaoning in the north. In China’s four-tier weather warning systems, the red represents the most severe one.
The “Plum Rain” season—a period of high rainfall that coincides with plum ripening—witnessed a record downpour that swamped Henan, Hubei, and Guizhou since last week.
Despite annual floods being a common occurrence in southern China, the disaster level in recent days has reached an all-time high in decades. Rongjiang, a small town in southwestern China where three rivers meet, was submerged again on June 28, less than a week after being hit by a flood on a scale that ֻChinese state media described as unprecedented in more than 50 years….
China Issues High Flood Alert for North and Western Regions, Rongjiang Reveals Human Cost
