A clean-up operation was under way after heavy rains hit Zhouqu county of Gansu province in northwest China, affecting more than 60,000 residents. 

China’s Three Gorges Dam is facing record high levels of flooding according to Chinese state media. 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.

China’s longest river, the Yangtze, and several of its tributaries rose to dangerous levels after days of heavy rain. The southwestern province of Sichuan, which includes a major upstream section of the Yangtze, raised its flood emergency response to the highest level for the first time on August 18, 2020. Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes as rivers overflow and villages and farmland were inundated with water. 
 

Gansu province, normally one of China’s driest regions, has been hit with nearly a week of torrential rains that have triggered mudslides, swept away bridges and  snapped power lines. State television footage shot August 17, 2020, shows mudslides and rising water that swept away bridges, damaged power lines and trapped more than 10,000 local residents in Longnan, a city in the county of Wenxian in the northwestern province. 
 

China is using new flood-control methods to cope with roads being blocked by rising waters. One of the latest solutions was developed by a Chinese company, which mitigates flooding more efficiently than commonly used sandbags.

A natural gas pipeline exploded and several roads collapsed after heavy rains inundated parts of Yulin, a city in China’s northwestern Shaanxi province. No casualties were reported in connection with the August 5, 2020, blast, but local authorities have evacuated nearly 600 people from the area.
 

The Yangtze River is flooding for the third time since the start of the 2020 monsoon season, as heavy torrential rains continue to batter large parts of China. Extensive flooding along Asia’s longest river, its tributaries, and other major rivers in China has already displaced more than 2 million people, according to state media

The collapse of a dam at a small reservoir in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region on June 7, 2020, could be a harbinger of the way increasingly extreme weather is testing the nation’s infrastructure. Many of the country's 94,000 ageing dams have been tested by recent heavy rain and flooding. China has raised its flood alert levels for the Yangtze River and Huai River, as flood prevention and relief efforts continue along those river basins. The record floods are also raising concerns about ageing dams at smaller reservoirs across the country.
 

Intense rainfall and severe flooding that has battered China since early June 2020, has affected tens of millions of people and left at least 140 dead or missing. The Three Gorges Dam that spans the Yangtze River has been put to the test in terms of its ability to  control floods along Asia’s longest river. But why have floods across a large region of China been so severe in the summer of 2020?
 

The city of Jingdezhen, known as China's porcelain capital, had already been hit hard in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic that ground production and sales to a halt. But only a few months after dealing with the coronavirus, the town in the eastern province of Jiangxi saw massive flooding as the Yangtze River overflowed its banks. The disasters delivered a one-two punch that has left people in the city struggling to get by.

Located on the banks of China's rain-swollen Yangtze River, the city of Wuhan went on high alert on July 17, 2020, amid fears that surrounding waterways and lakes will rise and cause flooding. People in the central Chinese city where the coronavirus first emerged late last year, are now being warned to take precautions for another challenge, as water levels rapidly approached the highest levels that are considered safe.

The monsoon season has brought heavy torrential rains and triggered flooding in large parts of Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar and Nepal. Scores of people have been killed and more than four million others have been caught up in the devastation across South Asia as well as parts of Southeast Asia according to reports as of mid-July 2020.

A look at the 700-year-old Guanyin Pavilion located in Ezhou, Hubei that has survived numerous floods in Yangtze River in China. 

The great flood of 1998 devastated the town of Jiangzhou which sits on an island in the middle of China's Yangtze River. More than two decades later in the summer of 2020, the island's residents are bracing for history to repeat itself as the waterway floods again, after already bringing widespread devastation to eastern and southern China.

Dixi and six other nearby villages in China’s eastern province of Jiangxi have been inundated by floodwaters from the nearby Yangtze River after it burst its banks on the afternoon of 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. In the nation’s central and southern regions, heavy downpours and flooding have gone on for weeks, so far affecting nearly 38 million people in 27 provinces, according to official figures. The extreme weather has been moving east along the Yangtze River to Jiangxi where flooding is now being seen along the river’s tributaries.

After weeks of intense seasonal flooding in southwestern and central China, torrential rains have caused more floods along the Yangtze River. Nearly 34 million people in 27 provinces have been affected, and nearly 2 million people forced to relocate, Chinese state media says.

Massive floods have hit several provinces along China’s Yangtze River, where rainfall in the middle and lower reaches of the waterway has hit the second-highest levels recorded during the July 1 to 7 period since 1961. Extreme weather across the country has also forced some areas to postpone all-important national college entrance exams known as gaokao. A key reservoir in the eastern province of Zhejiang has opened all nine of its spillways for the first time after flood-control levels were exceeded because of heavy rain and floods further upstream in Anhui province.

Torrential rains have been pounding large areas of China, triggering floods, mudslides and destroying roads as local authorities scramble to send in rescuers. State media reported that the deadly floods had affected around 19,380,000 people as of July 3, 2020. At least 121 people were reportedly dead or missing.

Heavy rainfall has triggered severe flooding in China’s southern and eastern regions. More than 8.5 million people in 24 regions have been affected by the weather. Authorities have issued rainstorms warnings in 22 counties in the southern province of Guizhou since June 22, 2020, while Chongqing in the southwest recorded its largest floods since 1940. 
 

A local journalist has captured the moment of five rats climbing a window security net to get away from flood water in Guangxi, China on June 10, 2020.

Heavy rains and related flooding have affected 1.63 million people in southern and eastern China, according to China’s Ministry of Emergency Management. 

Torrential rain hit many locations across southern, central and eastern China since May 25, 2019. Residents were trapped in floods and rescuers mobilised to evacuate villagers.

Rescuers came to the aid of 65 villagers in a Beijing suburb after they became stranded by floods, triggered by heavy rain. The village became cut off after floodwaters destroyed roads and a bridge that connected it to the outside world.