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Li Jing

Flooding in the Yangtze River basin has left at least 112 people dead or missing in recent days, and the situation could worsen when a typhoon makes landfall this week, mainland media ­reported on Tuesday.
About 16 million people have been affected by the rains that submerged vast tracts along the Yangtze, China’s longest river, ­according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Nationwide, the death toll stands at 170, and direct economic losses exceeded 20 billion yuan (HK$23.3 billion), the ministry said.
Premier Li Keqiang travelled to Fuyang in Anhui province, where he met residents and encouraged officials to do all they could to protect people and livelihoods. Li was accompanied by Vice-Premier Wang Yang and State Councillor Yang Jing, according to Xinhua.
In Anhui’s Zongyang county, residents awoke on Monday with floodwaters partially submerging their homes, but less than two hours later, a dyke broke and little more than the roofs of their homes could be seen.
Death toll from torrential rain across China rises to 186
In Luan, in the west of the province, a farmer was photographed breaking down in tears as waters rose around more than 6,000 pigs he was raising in a large barn.

China News Service reported rescue work was under way to move those animals weighing less than 80kg to safety.
In Jiangsu, northeast of Anhui, the water level in Tai Lake was its highest since 1954.
The area faced a “serious” risk of flooding if the typhoon struck ­later this week, according to ­Xinhua.
To the west of Anhui, Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province, saw the water level reach 27.5 metres, 0.2 metres above what is considered safe. The level is expected to reach 27.8 metres by Friday.
The premier was due to visit ­Hunan province, where torrential rain and flooding had affected more than 100 train services since midnight on Sunday, Xinhua reported.
China’s surveillance system on main stretches of Yangtze River will help it withstand deadly floods: officials
The provincial police said on its official microblog that one officer was washed away when trying to help people in Huaihua. He was rescued downstream of the Yuan River.
In Yiyang, about three tonnes of petrol and diesel leaked from a fuel station on Monday, contaminating floodwaters that flowed into a nearby river, it said.
The water in 43 rivers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze had exceeded warning levels and patrol teams were monitoring dykes, Xinhua quoted Chen Guiya, an official with the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, as saying.
The Ministry of Civil Affairs said on its website that 1.34 million hectares of crops had been damaged and another 157,800 hectares had been destroyed as of Monday morning. The direct economic losses amounted to 20.43 billion yuan.

The rain is expected to move north this week towards the Huai River, The Beijing News said.
Flooding is common during the summer monsoon season in southern China, but rainfall has been especially heavy this year.
Vice-Premier Wang Yang warned last month that a strong El Nino effect would increase the risk of floods in the Yangtze and Huai river basins.
A similar effect was linked to the epic floods of 1998, when more than 4,000 people died, and 15 million were left homeless, mostly around the Yangtze.
The nation’s chief meteorologist said last week that rain patterns this year were more disparate than 18 years ago, lowering the risk of a ­repeat ofthat disaster.
China braces for more floods as torrential rains lash central and southern areas
The national observatory issued an orange alert for storms across the south and east last week – the second-highest warning in its four-tier system.
Typhoon Nepartak is expected to move west in the Pacific Ocean, passing north of the Philippines, before hitting Taiwan sometime tomorrow.
It was forecast to hit the mainland around Fujian province possibly on Friday and sweep north towards Shanghai.
Whole villages were levelled and at least 98 killed in Jiangsu last month after the region was hit by a storm with hurricane-force winds and the worst tornado in half a century.
Floods have created havoc in South Asia this week, with 33 killed in Pakistan and 25 dead in India after unusually heavy rains.


More than 110 dead or missing in floods in China’s Yangtze River basin

(160702) -- WUHAN, July 2, 2016 (Xinhua) -- An aerial photo taken on July 2, 2016 shows inundated areas in Xinzhou District after a dike breach, in Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province. Heavy rainfall caused a dike breach on the Jushui River in Xinzhou District Friday. Six villages and one community near by the breach were flooded. More than 700 rescuers were sent there to evacuate stranded villagers. (Xinhua/YB Mountain & Water Rescue Team) (wyl)

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Workers reinforce a temporary dyke at Shuren Middle School in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. A section of the Yangtze River embankment near the school continued to leak on Monday morning so the temporary dyke was built. Photo: Xinhua

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