July 9, 2012. The water level of Yangtze River rose after heavy rains.
[Photo/Xinhua]
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Rainstorms have killed 65people and left 30 others missing in eight
provincial-level regions since June 28, the Ministryof Civil Affairs
said Monday.
The downpours have triggered floods and landslides that have affected
17.44 million people in Jiangsu, Anhui and Shandong provinces in East
China, Henan and Hubei provinces in CentralChina, Chongqing
Municipality and Sichuan province in Southwest China and Shaanxi
province in Northwest China, the ministry said, adding that 1.17
million people have been evacuated.
About 982,400 hectares of farmland have been affected by bad weathers
and about 66,000 houses have collapsed, the ministry said.
The ministry has sent three teams of experts and officials to aid in
reliefwork in affected regions, as well as shipped tents and quilts to
hard-hit Sichuan, the ministry said.
In another Monday report, the ministry said 465 people were killed and
97 missing in natural disasters in the first half of this year.
More than 113.36 million people were affected by natural disasters
during the period, the report said.
Floods, hail and landslideshad the greatest impact on people, followed
by droughts, earthquakes, snowstorms and typhoons, the report said.
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