Record levels of rainfall in China have caused floods and landslides in the south of the country, as well as the preventive evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people, state media reported on Tuesday.
Heavy rains are frequent in late spring and early summer.mainly in the center and south of China, regions where important industrial cities are also located.
In recent days, heavy rains have hit southeastern China’s Guangdong province, threatening logistics services and manufacturing output, at a time when supply chains are already under pressure due to restrictive preventive measures taken. by China, in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic”. zero case policy.
The city of Shaoguan, located about 200 kilometers north of Guangzhou, the provincial capital, issued a red alert for floods, the highest level of the Chinese meteorological service.
Schools were converted into temporary shelters and hundreds of temporary facilities were set up in a sports center, according to images released by the press.
The neighboring region of Guangxi in the south was Hit by the worst rains since 2005, according to the local press. Residents were evacuated as muddy waters inundated residential areas.
According to local weather services, 28 rivers in the region have risen to levels considered dangerous.
In Fujian, in eastern China, more than 220 thousand people were also evacuatedas a preventive measure, since the beginning of the month, according to the official Xinhua news agency.
Rainfall in Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi averaged 621 millimeters between early May and mid-June, the highest level since 1961, according to China’s weather report.
in 2021China suffered severe flooding, with very heavy rains in the center of the country, causing more than 300 dead.
Most died in floods and landslides in the city of Zhengzhou, where many drivers were stranded as water flooded highway tunnels.
Source: Observadora
