https://www.scmp.com/rss/328037/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Edith Mao Edith Mao The rainy season in northern China traditionally arrives in July and August and this year it hit hard – again. In late July, the capital Beijing and neighbouring Hebei province were battered by heavy rain that left dozens of people dead. In one case, 31 people died in a nursing home in the northern Beijing district of Miyun in an area that had been considered safe from flooding. This year’s disaster is the fifth of its kind in the country’s north since 2012. Is the flooding in Beijing unusual... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3321331/beijing-has-been-hit-deadly-floods-again-it-unusual?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3321331/beijing-has-been-hit-deadly-floods-again-it-unusual?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 10 Aug 2025 06:00:14 +0000 Dannie Peng Dannie Peng The official death toll from storms in Beijing has risen to 44, with Chinese officials saying on Thursday that 31 people died in a flooded nursing home. Beijing vice-mayor Xia Linmao said the nursing home was in the mountainous outlying district of Miyun, where 37 people in all have died in the storms over the past week. The home was built in 2021 in Taishitun township upstream of the Miyun Reservoir, and offers residential care for the severely disabled, orphaned, elderly and low-income... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3320320/31-die-chinese-elder-care-centre-human-cost-flooding-disaster-rises?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3320320/31-die-chinese-elder-care-centre-human-cost-flooding-disaster-rises?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:09:51 +0000 Dannie Peng,Fan Chen Dannie Peng,Fan Chen China has allocated millions in emergency funds to regions devastated by heavy downpours and floods that claimed at least 40 lives in Beijing and its neighbouring provinces. A total of 550 million yuan (US$76.7 million) has been allocated by the central government to flood-hit regions for disaster relief, with 200 million yuan directed to Beijing’s response to the floods. The torrential rains led to 30 deaths in Beijing as of Monday, according to state media reports on Tuesday. Chinese leaders... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319906/chinese-officials-call-all-out-response-after-downpours-lead-heavy-casualties?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3319906/chinese-officials-call-all-out-response-after-downpours-lead-heavy-casualties?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:27:42 +0000 https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/article/3142519/chinas-henan-province-inundated-catastrophic-floods?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/article/3142519/chinas-henan-province-inundated-catastrophic-floods?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Jul 2021 07:05:09 +0000 China’s Three Gorges Dam is facing record levels of flooding because the Yangtze River, which passes through the dam, has flooded several times this year already amid heavy rains. The waterway’s lower reaches are still recovering from heavy flooding in July that affected a large part of southeastern China. https://www.scmp.com/china/chinas-three-gorges-dam-faces-severe-flooding-yangtze-overflows/article/3098530?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/chinas-three-gorges-dam-faces-severe-flooding-yangtze-overflows/article/3098530?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:19:23 +0000 Tap here to launch this special feature https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/society/article/3094790/chinas-flooding-crisis-caused-torrential-rain-and-weak?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/infographics/china/society/article/3094790/chinas-flooding-crisis-caused-torrential-rain-and-weak?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Jul 2020 10:30:18 +0000 In the summer of 2020, a large chunk of China was inundated with the most severe flooding the country has seen in years. The deluge came just as China was beginning to return to some semblance of normal after the country had gotten control of the coronavirus within its borders.    Millions of people had to rush to evacuate and leave their homes behind, and businesses that were teetering after the pandemic were dealt another haymaker. In China, like much of the world, seasonal flooding is common,... https://www.scmp.com/society/inkstone-explains-why-does-china-have-floods-almost-every-summer/article/3094190?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/inkstone-explains-why-does-china-have-floods-almost-every-summer/article/3094190?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Jul 2020 03:20:36 +0000 The floodwaters arrived so quickly in China’s “porcelain capital” Jingdezhen that Yu Ciqiong had just hours to save her business. As soon as she heard the city might be inundated, Yu dashed to the factory while her husband rushed to their shop to shore up its defenses. The couple and their staff worked all day, moving plates, teapots, cups and other exquisite items to higher shelves and floors.  But, when the water came – via a tributary of the swollen Yangtze River running through the city in... https://www.scmp.com/society/flooding-chinas-porcelain-capital-misfortune-piling-us/article/3093563?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/flooding-chinas-porcelain-capital-misfortune-piling-us/article/3093563?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Jul 2020 09:55:26 +0000 Dixi and six other nearby villages in China’s eastern province of Jiangxi have been inundated by floodwaters from the nearby Yangtze River since July 8, 2020. About 20,000 residents have been left without power and drinking water in just one of many areas that have been hard-hit by floods across large areas of China. https://www.scmp.com/china/saving-villagers-chinas-flooding-yangtze/article/3093268?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/china/saving-villagers-chinas-flooding-yangtze/article/3093268?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Jul 2020 09:05:43 +0000 Every Tuesday and Thursday, China Trends takes the pulse of the Chinese social media to keep you in the loop of what the world’s biggest internet population is talking about. The next Li Ziqi?  A 63-year-old Chinese grandpa has become a YouTube sensation. Grandpa Amu, whose original name is Wang Dewen, makes toys, furniture and structures out of wood without using nails, glue or screws. Fans of his videos and media outlets in China have lauded him for promoting the traditional craft abroad... https://www.scmp.com/society/china-trends-woodworker-captivates-youtube-and-local-government-pleads-online-flood-aid/article/3093054?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/china-trends-woodworker-captivates-youtube-and-local-government-pleads-online-flood-aid/article/3093054?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Jul 2020 07:15:43 +0000 Wu Shengsong was on his fifth night in a row patroling the banks of the Xi River, in east China’s Jiangxi province, when lightning lit up the sky and he feared that worse was yet to come. “I’m a little worried,” he said on Saturday. “The forecast is for several days of rain.” Wu works as an official in the village of Wanli, close to Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake. By Sunday morning, after a heavy downpour and a release of floodwater from the Yangtze River upstream, the lake’s water... https://www.scmp.com/society/floods-hit-34-million-people-and-keep-chinas-dike-watchers-night/article/3092935?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/society/floods-hit-34-million-people-and-keep-chinas-dike-watchers-night/article/3092935?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:33:44 +0000