The floods reached up to three meters deep in some areas, causing significant damage and leading the authorities to implement emergency measures and to allocate funds for reconstruction work.
The intense rains that plague various southern and downtown China regions since the beginning of the week have affected at least 300,000 people and forced tens of thousands of residents, especially in Guangdong province.
In the village of Huaiji, one of the most affected areas, The rains caused floods of up to three meters deepleaving half of the local roads impassable.
Images released by state television show Streets covered with mud and neighbors and volunteers to work on cleaning.
The National Commission for Development and Reformation allocated this week 60 million yuan (7.3 million euros) to support emergency and reconstruction work in Guangdongwhere about 70,000 people were resolved, the official news agency said .
The situation is also critical in other provinces of the center and eastern of the country, Like Hunan, where the Lishui River has registered its biggest flood since 1998.
Na ice de Longshan, Four people are still missing after being stuck in a flooded underground garage.
In the neighboring province of Hubei, authorities withdrew hundreds of people in municipalities como Hefeng e Laifeng.
In the latter, A nursery was completely flooded and it was necessary to transport 500 children in raftsreported the newspaper The Paper.
Experts warn of increase of extreme weather phenomena due to climate change
Chinese authorities keep an emergency response of level IV active – The lowest of a four -level system – in at least nine regions.
The Ministry of Water Resources sent Technical teams for high -risk zones and asked local governments to reinforce surveillance and preventive evacuation of vulnerable areas.
In the last summers, extreme climate events have caused damage in the Asian country: The summer months of 2023 were marked by flooding in Beijingwhich left more than 30 dead and forced to reset thousands of people.
Em 2022, several extreme and dry heat waves hit the center and the east of the countrycausing problems in supplying electricity to some hydraulic -dependent industries.
A year before, serious floods in the central province of Henancaused by unprecedented rainfall as long as there are records, caused the death of over 300 people.
Local experts have warned in recent years that climate change may increase the frequency of extreme weather phenomena No Asian country.
