China's Sichuan Province raises flood response to highest level
China's southwestern province of Sichuan raised its flood emergency response to its highest level on Tuesday, the first time it has ever done so, local media said, with its rivers overflowing and villages and farmlands inundated.
China has seen unusually high levels of rain this flood season, with southwest and central regions along the Yangtze river basin bearing the brunt of flooding.
The Ministry of Water Resources said on Monday that 38 tributaries on the upper reaches of the Yangtze were now higher than their warning levels, 19 dangerously so.
The Yangtze, China's largest river, and several of its tributaries have risen to dangerous levels after days of heavy rainfall, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. A major upstream part of the Yangtze runs through Sichuan.
The Qingyi river, an upper Yangtze tributary, saw its worst flooding in a century, Sichuan's flood control authority said, with the city of Ya'an forced to evacuate more than 36,000 people as the river burst its banks on Monday.
By last week, 63 million people had been affected by floods, 12.7 per cent higher than the average over the past five years, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management. The cost of direct economic damage reached 179 billion yuan ($25.82 billion), 15.5 per cent higher than the five-year average, it added.
(Source: Reuters)
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