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China flood response escalates, dam safety worries

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China flood response escalates amid rains, typhoons escalates, dam safety worries

The nationwide flood‑and‑drought safety programme launched in June continues to widen expand as a series of heavy rains and two successive typhoons push river levels across multiple basins. After Typhoon Red Xia, the Ministry of Water Resources kept a Level‑IV emergency response for Fujian, Jiangxi, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi, dispatching five water‑resources work groups and expert teams to guide on‑site flood defence and evacuations. experts. On 24 July a joint operation by the Cyberspace Administration and the Ministry of Emergency Management began cracking down on illegal disaster‑related information, targeting AI‑fabricated footage and fraud. The same day the Water Resources Ministry held a special meeting on Typhoon Hongxia, warning of rising water levels in the Pearl, Yangtze, Huai, Yellow and Songhua basins and ordering pre‑emptive reservoir releases, reinforced levee inspections and stricter flood‑control duties. In the northwest, heavy rains on 30 July prompted Shaanxi’s capital Xi’an to raise its rainstorm warning to the highest red level and close valleys in the Qin Mountains, while Gansu upgraded its emergency response to Level III and issued a red alert for geological disasters in Longnan, temporarily shutting 61 tourist sites. Earlier in July a flash‑flood flash‑floods in Gansu’s Shuangshimen gorge had killed 10 people and left one missing, underscoring missing. Late July reports revealed cracks at a reservoir in Guangdong, prompting evacuations downstream and raising concerns about the expanding geographic scope condition of China’s more than 90,000 aging dams, including pressure on the crisis. Three Gorges Dam. In early August, Chongqing authorities warned of moderate to heavy rains that could raise water levels on the upper Yangtze and its tributaries, issuing alerts for 17 provinces and maintaining emergency flood responses in several regions. The combined threats underscore nationwide challenges in flood management and dam safety.

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