Water level in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River rises significantly due to heavy rainfall
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
A drone photo taken on July 8, 2026 shows water overflowing the guardrail of a waterside tourist platform at a levee along the Yangtze River in Wuchang District of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Affected by heavy rainfall, the water level in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River rose significantly on Wednesday.
The water level at the Yangtze Hankou monitoring station reached 25.11 meters, 0.11 meters above the warning mark. (Photo by Zhao Jun/Xinhua)
A drone photo taken on July 8, 2026 shows flood control personnel and volunteers checking the condition of a levee along the Yangtze River in Wuchang District of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Affected by heavy rainfall, the water level in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River rose significantly on Wednesday.
The water level at the Yangtze Hankou monitoring station reached 25.11 meters, 0.11 meters above the warning mark. (Photo by Zhao Jun/Xinhua)
This photo taken on July 8, 2026 shows a submerged waterside tourist platform at the riverbank along the Yangtze River in Hankou of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Affected by heavy rainfall, the water level in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River rose significantly on Wednesday.
The water level at the Yangtze Hankou monitoring station reached 25.11 meters, 0.11 meters above the warning mark. (Xinhua/Wu Zhizun)
This photo taken on July 8, 2026, shows a submerged waterside tourist platform at the riverbank along the Yangtze River in Hankou of Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province. Affected by heavy rainfall, the water level in the Wuhan section of the Yangtze River rose significantly on Wednesday.
The water level at the Yangtze Hankou monitoring station reached 25.11 meters, 0.11 meters above the warning mark.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
