{"id":1299,"date":"2025-06-25T05:33:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/over-80000-people-flee-severe-flooding-in-southwest-china\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T05:33:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T05:33:58","slug":"over-80000-people-flee-severe-flooding-in-southwest-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/over-80000-people-flee-severe-flooding-in-southwest-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 80,000 people flee severe flooding in southwest China"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tSHANGHAI: Flooding in China’s southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday, as a collapsed bridge forced the dramatic rescue of a truck driver left dangling over the edge.<\/p>\n

\n\tChina is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heat waves scorching wide swaths of the country while rainstorms pummel other regions.<\/p>\n

\n\tAround 80,900 people had been evacuated by Tuesday afternoon in the southwestern province of Guizhou, state news agency Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Rongjiang county a football field was “submerged under three meters of water,” the news agency said.<\/p>\n

\n\tFootage from state broadcaster CCTV showed severe flooding has inundated villages and collapsed a bridge in one mountainous area of the province.<\/p>\n

\n\tRescuers pushed boats carrying residents through murky, knee-high water and children waited in a kindergarten as emergency personnel approached them, the footage showed.<\/p>\n

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\n\t“The water rose very quickly,” resident Long Tian told Xinhua.<\/p>\n

\n\t“I stayed on the third floor waiting for rescue. By the afternoon, I had been transferred to safety.”<\/p>\n

\n\tA team was also seen preparing a drone to deliver supplies including rice to flood victims.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd in a video circulated by local media, truck driver You Guochun recounted his harrowing rescue after he ended up perched over the edge of a broken bridge segment.<\/p>\n

\n\t“A bridge collapsed entirely in front of me,” he said.<\/p>\n

\n\t“I was terrified.”<\/p>\n

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\n\tFloods have also hit the neighboring Guangxi region, with state media publishing videos of rescuers there carrying residents to safety.<\/p>\n

\n\tTens of thousands of people were evacuated last week in the central Chinese province of Hunan due to heavy rain.<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd nearly 70,000 people in southern China were relocated days earlier after heavy flooding caused by Typhoon Wutip.<\/p>\n

\n\tChinese authorities issued the year’s first red alerts last week for mountain torrents in six regions – the most severe warning level in the country’s four-tier system.<\/p>\n

\n\tSome areas in the affected regions were “extremely likely to be hit,” Xinhua reported, with local governments urged to issue timely warnings to residents.<\/p>\n

\n\tClimate change – which scientists say is exacerbated by greenhouse gas emissions – is making such extreme weather phenomena more frequent and more intense.<\/p>\n

\n\tAuthorities in Beijing this week issued the second-highest heat warning for the capital on one of its hottest days of the year so far.<\/p>\n

\n\tLast year was China’s hottest on record and the past four were its warmest ever.<\/p>\n

\n\tChina is the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter but is also a renewable energy powerhouse, seeking to cut carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2060.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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SHANGHAI: Flooding in China’s southwest has driven more than 80,000 people from their homes, state media said on Wednesday, as a collapsed bridge forced the dramatic rescue of a truck driver left dangling over the edge. China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heat waves scorching wide swaths of the country while rainstorms…<\/p>\n

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