Heavy rain from Sunday afternoon to Monday morning caused flight delays and closed expressways in central China’s Henan province.
Heavy rain lashed western and north-central parts of Henan, including the capital Zhengzhou, where rainfall reached 145 mm, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local weather officials.
As of 8 a.m. Monday, the entrances to the Zhengzhou-Shaolin Temple Expressway and the Zhengzhou Ring Expressway were closed due to heavy rain.
One flight from Changchun to Zhengzhou in northeast China’s Jilin province was canceled while five other domestic flights were delayed due to the weather.
The provincial transportation department is disseminating weather and road information through social media, radio broadcasts, television and roadside electronic screens and is already distributing disaster relief materials such as sandbags at locations prone to landslides, rock-mud flows and collapses. Have prepared.
About 550 emergency response teams of approximately 30,000 people were created.
In addition, more than 8,000 vehicles, 283 ships and 2,711 large rescue equipment have been made available to deal with extreme situations such as lightning, including cranes, bulldozers and excavator machinery as well as emergency equipment such as water pumps and alternators. Failures.
Since the beginning of the flood season, most parts of the country have been receiving continuous heavy rains.
At least 7,000 residents of Dongting Lake, China’s second-largest freshwater lake, have been forced to evacuate due to a breach in the dam since Friday.
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