The press agency further detailed the aftermath of record rainfall across the southern Chinese provinces of Hunan and Guangdong on Tuesday, writing: ,” Xinhua observed, adding that the lake’s water level is expected to continue rising over the next few days. The water level at Poyang Lake’s Xingzi hydrological station rose “0.05 meters higher than the alert level of 19 meters at around 3 p.m. The water level of Jiangxi’s Poyang Lake, which is the largest freshwater lake in China, exceeded the warning level on June 21. Relentless rainfall in Jiangxi over the past week has caused the province’s waterways to swell. This aerial photo taken on Jshows flooded streets and buildings following heavy rains in Wuyuan, in east China’s Jiangxi province.
dollars), according to the headquarters,” the news agency relayed. Direct economic losses from the floods reached 470 million yuan (about 70.3 million U.S. Monday, heavy rain and floods had hit 55 counties across Jiangxi, with 43,300 hectares of crops affected. “The flood control and drought relief headquarters of east China’s Jiangxi Province upgraded the flood control emergency response to level II on Monday evening, as around 485,000 residents were affected by lingering rain,” according to Xinhua. The BBC reported on Tuesday that “hundreds of thousands” of southern Chinese residents have been forced to flee their homes due to the excessive rainfall. Xinhua reported on June 21 that tens of thousands of people have evacuated southern and eastern Chinese provinces due to recent flooding while hundreds of thousands more have been “affected” by the natural disaster. Historic floods across southern and eastern China have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate the region in recent days and caused over $253 million in economic damage, Xinhua, China’s official state agency, reported on Tuesday.
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