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China's news service, Xinhua, called the event one of the deadliest disasters to hit Jiangsu in decades, [13] and the deadliest tornado to hit China in half a century. [14] Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang requested "all-out rescue efforts" to aid victims and survivors. [ 5 ]
A major drought in 2001 resulted in China losing 6.4 billion U.S. dollars of crops as well as reducing water supply for “33 million rural people and 22 million livestock.” [35] There may be a big impact on the spatial and temporal distribution in China's water resources, increasing extreme weather events and natural disasters. [29]
The movement against the project, which halted construction in 2016 [115] was “a peak in the history of China’s environmental movement.” [116] According to sociologists Yanfei Sun and Dingxin Zhao reasons for this was the higher risk involved following the environmental action and government response to the Three Gorges Dam. [117]
This category includes historic weather events which have occurred in China. This category includes floods caused by rain, but not floods caused simply by dam failures. For non-weather related events, see Category:Disasters in China
Weather events in China have become more intense and unpredictable because of global warming, scientists say, with record-breaking rainfall and drought assailing the world's second-largest economy ...
BEIJING (Reuters) -Dramatic swings between extreme heat and intense rainfall are testing China's ability to cope with increasingly wild weather, as high temperatures challenge power grids and ...
China is a mountainous country, which leads to rapid dissipation of cyclones that move inland as well as significant amounts of rain from those dissipating cyclones. Typhoon Nina in 1975 caused the collapse of two huge reservoirs and ten smaller dams when 1062 mm (41.81 inches) of rain fell in Henan Province during a 24‑hour period.
Mega-cities on China's eastern coast are facing another spell of scorching heat as temperatures hovered around 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) on Friday and prolonged extreme temperatures were ...