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Several floods caused by heavy rainfall struck in China starting in Guangdong Province in April 2024. Bands of heavy rainfall in June 2024 caused water levels to rise in rivers before moving northwards to other Southeastern and Central Chinese provinces, causing significantly raised water levels in the Yangtze River and the Pearl River Delta, inundating many towns and cities, forcing the ...
The Beijing Flood Control Headquarters activated the city's flood control red early warning on July 30. Tiananmen Square, the Palace Museum, the Summer Palace, and the Badaling Great Wall were temporarily closed. [12] The China Central Television reported that 31,000 individuals fled their homes in high-risk regions in Beijing. [13]
The 2010 China Floods affected more than 230 million people – with 15.2 million people evacuated and thousands dead. 2011 China floods; The 2013 Southwest China floods. On 23 May 2015, at least 57 people were killed in floods in six provinces. [56] Among the dead were two schoolchildren on an overloaded bus that plunged into a pond. [57] 2016 ...
QINGYUAN, China (Reuters) -Floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta following record-breaking rains, sparking worries about the region's defences against ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Intense rain from the remnants of Typhoon Haikui hit southeast China on Wednesday, bringing floods that forced some cities to suspend subway services, shut schools and move tens ...
Northeastern China, Beijing and Hebei province have seen heavy rainfall and floods since the typhoon made landfall in southern Fujian province two weeks ago. The deaths in Shulan, in northeastern ...
0–9. 1851–1855 Yellow River floods; 1912 China typhoon; 1931 China floods; 1935 Yangtze flood; Eastern China flood of 1991; Shalan Town flood of 2005
From the air, the devastation in Zhengzhou (JUNG-JO) is seen at its worst. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from the industrial hub in China's central Henan province.And dams and ...