{"id":20937,"date":"2025-06-29T05:35:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20937"},"modified":"2025-06-29T05:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T05:35:09","slug":"disaster-relief-efforts-underway-in-flood-hit-southwest-china-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=20937","title":{"rendered":"Disaster relief efforts underway in flood-hit southwest China county"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250629\/5878d9742ef34edfb73432ccae9809e8\/202506295878d9742ef34edfb73432ccae9809e8_XxjwshE007002_20250629_CBMFN0A001.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Rescuers evacuate residents in Rongjiang County, southwest China&#8217;s Guizhou Province, June 28, 2025. &nbsp;(Xinhua\/Liu Xu)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heavy flooding has returned to Rongjiang County in southwest China&#8217;s Guizhou Province, prompting local authorities to re-activate the highest-level emergency flood response, effective from 12:30 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 6:30 p.m., the Shihuichang Hydrological Station on Duliu River recorded a water level of 253.06 meters, with a flow rate of 8,000 cubic meters per second, surpassing the guaranteed water level of 251.5 meters by 1.56 meters. This was slightly lower than its earlier forecast, which estimated a peak flood level of 253.5 meters at around 5 p.m. However, water levels continue to rise gradually by 6:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The local flood control and drought relief headquarters has upgraded the flood control emergency response from Level II to Level I, the highest level in China&#8217;s four-tier weather warning system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local authorities are evacuating residents from affected areas. By 6 p.m. on Saturday, Rongjiang had organized the urgent evacuation and relocation of 11,992 households and 41,574 individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rongjiang has received an influx of over 1,000 soldiers equipped with heavy machinery, including excavators, bulldozers and loaders, to provide urgent assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since flooding began, Rongjiang, with a population of 385,000, has received prompt rescue efforts from both authorities and volunteers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The disaster relief work is advancing in an orderly manner, Rongjiang&#8217;s flood control and drought relief headquarters said late Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, due to the limited road capacity in the affected areas, local authorities requested that non-government rescue teams halt heading to the affected areas until coordinating with the county&#8217;s flood control and drought relief headquarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since June 24, Rongjiang has been hit by severe flooding due to persistent rainstorms. As of midday on Thursday, six people had died as a result of the floods.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reference Link:- <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250629\/5878d9742ef34edfb73432ccae9809e8\/c.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20250629\/5878d9742ef34edfb73432ccae9809e8\/c.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heavy flooding has returned to Rongjiang County in southwest China&#8217;s Guizhou Province, prompting local authorities to re-activate the highest-level emergency flood response, effective from 12:30 p.m. Saturday. At 6:30 p.m., the Shihuichang Hydrological Station on Duliu River recorded a water level of 253.06 meters, with a flow rate of 8,000 cubic meters per second, surpassing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[282,29,208,20524,132,20523,105,3907,20522,20521],"class_list":["post-20937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-bri","tag-china","tag-climate-change","tag-disaster-relief-efforts-underway-in-flood-hit-southwest-china-county","tag-economy","tag-flood-hit-south-china","tag-geopolitics-2","tag-natural-disasters","tag-recue-operation-in-the-disaster-hit-areas","tag-relief-efforts-in-the-disasters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20939,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20937\/revisions\/20939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}