In the current situation ... converge – when it comes to severe rain and flash floods. It is also the largest river system in northern China, covering a total area of 265,000 square kilometers ...

This comes as northern China battles severe drought ... authorities remain on high alert, fearing that the current flooding could surpass the devastation seen in July 2012, when 79 people lost ...

BEIJING -- Flooding in southwestern China has destroyed dozens of roads and homes. Yunnan province’s mountainous Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture had 27 houses damaged and 16 bridges damaged or ...

However, officials have not linked the current situation with climate change ... the unusual warming of surface water in the eastern Pacific Ocean. How does China’s flood control system work?

Xi Jinping, China’s current paramount leader ... tries to hide the mass suffering of the Chinese people is the flooding in northern China. Areas in Hebei Province near Beijing were hit the ...

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Specifically, the intense rainfalls were generated by the low-pressure moist current from the south-east ... risk also has human-caused roots.” China has built a number of large water projects to ...