People are seen on a makeshift raft in a flooded village in Huangshan, Anhui Province
Beijing:
China raised its second highest score flood response alert on Sunday as showers continue to hit areas along the Yangtze River, with eastern Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces hardest hit, media reports said. officials.
Regional flooding in Poyang County, Jiangxi has raised the water levels of Poyang Lake in China, its largest freshwater lake, to over 22.52 meters, a historic high and well – above the alert level of 19.50 meters.
Provincial military authorities dispatched thousands of soldiers to help strengthen nearly 9 km (6 miles) of the lake’s shore on Saturday evening to prevent them from bursting, state television said.
China has a four-level emergency response system for flood control, with level one being the most severe.
Citing data from the Ministry of Water Resources, 212 rivers have since exceeded alert levels since early July, 19 of which have reached historic highs.
China has blamed extreme weather conditions due to climate change for the torrential rains that have hit large swathes of the country since June and caused more than 60 billion yuan (8.57 billion US dollars) in economic loss.
($ 1 = 6.9990 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Liangping Gao in Beijing and Chen Aizhu in Singapore; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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