A sea of people flooded Chongqing's Tianmen Court to watch the floodwaters
Chongqing, one of the four centrally-run cities in China, this week is experiencing an exceptionally large and rare flood in its history. Other provinces are also straining against floods.
In the video, a resident of Chongqing city shared: "I am not affected much because my home is located up high.
But with so many stores that said, the losses were heavy. The first half of the year is against the epidemic of COVID-19, the second half of the year is against floods. Hope the floodwaters soon recede. ”It is estimated that more than 20,000 stores in Chongqing have been flooded with water.
3 main reasons
This week, the 5th flood on the Changjiang River and the 2nd flood on the Gia Lang tributaries passed through Chongqing City. The water level measured at the Than Than hydrological station in this city on August 20 reached 191.62m, surpassing the record level of 191.41m in 1981.
"This is also the highest water level recorded since the Ton Than hydrological station was built in 1939" - Mr. Truong The Minh, a senior official at Truong Giang Irrigation Committee, said.
However, it is questioned why Chongqing has so much flood in recent days with hot weather? On August 21, experts answered this issue in Chinese media.
"There are three main causes of this particularly large and rare flood in Chongqing history," said Truong Na, deputy head of the hydrological forecasting department at the Changjiang Irrigation Committee.
First, heavy rains occurred continuously over a large area in the upstream area of Chongqing recently.
Second, the upper tributaries such as Man Giang, Da Giang, Gia Lang, and Phu Giang at the same time had the water level exceeding the warning level, many streams converging to impact the Truong Giang River at the section flowing through Chongqing.
Third is the flood. For this reason, expert Wang The Binh at Chongqing Emergency Management Department explained that the fourth flood in 2020 is not over yet, flood No. 5 has formed in upstream of Changjiang.
The situation on the Gia Lang branch was similar. In a way, it is easy to understand that "the first flood has not been over yet, the latter has come".
Although Chongqing has been hot in recent days, the province of Sichuan, close to Chongqing, has had torrential rains.
On August 18, Sichuan launched the 1st emergency response to flood control, the highest level and for the first time in history the province adopted such a high level. Water on many rivers flowing through Sichuan has recently risen continuously.
Talking numbers
This year's flood control and rescue work in China faces a tough challenge. Since June, the Truong Giang river basin has caused serious floods, affecting many provinces in the south.
The Chinese news agency Xinhua said on August 21 that the 2020 floods now affect 63.64 million people across the country, causing direct economic losses amounting to 178.96 billion yuan ( nearly 26 billion USD) for China. At least 219 people died and more than 4 million were evacuated.
Since the beginning of the year until now, the Yangtze, Yellow, Hoai Ha, Chau Giang (the largest rivers in China) and Taihu (one of the largest freshwater lakes in China) have arisen. flood up to 17 times.
This week, Chinese leaders including President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang visited several localities to oversee flood protection.
In Anhui province, Mr. Xi said that the people of this country have fought the natural disaster for thousands of years, have accumulated valuable experience and will continue to fight.
However, the flood situation in some places has had positive changes. For example, Xinhua reported on Aug. 21 that Jiangsu province had lifted its comprehensive flood warning and that the flood situation across the province had basically returned to normal.
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