Floods Displace Hundreds in Kaizhou, China

In Kaizhou district, China, more than 450 people were displaced as water levels from the Nan and Puli rivers, tributaries of the Yangtze River, reached 13.1 feet.

The national weather agency forecast that cumulative rainfall in Kaizhou would measure up to 5.5 to 8.6 inches over the next two days, the report added.

In Hubei province’s Badong county, rescuers evacuated residents from buildings and removed vehicles partially submerged in floodwater.

Yellow alerts for floods have been issued by China's Central Meteorological Bureau, which has warned of heavy rainfall in Chongqing, and the provinces of Sichuan, Anhui and Jiangsu.

China has completed an embankment stretching about 12 kilometers, which is located approximately 40 kilometers west of the city of Yueyang, central China's Hunan Province, strengthening flood prevention work at Dongting Lake, the Ministry of Water Resources said.

The National Fire and Rescue Administration had dispatched 219 rescue workers and 72 fire-fighting trucks and flood drainage rescue vehicles to Hunan to assist local authorities with rescue operations.

The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said that since the dike breach at Dongting Lake, the ministry has deployed workers, trucks and generators for emergency repairs, and has managed to maintain normal telecommunications operations, except in waterlogged areas.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Water Resources allocated an additional about 118.9 million U.S. dollars to support local flood rescue efforts.

This week, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters has successively activated Level IV emergency responses to flooding in Shandong, Chongqing and Jiangsu, with heavy rainfall persisting.

China renewed a yellow alert for rainstorms, the third most severe alert in its four-tier weather warning system.