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A total of 90 officials in Henan province have been punished in relation to a flood which left 398 people dead or missing in the province in July, according to discipline authorities and an investigation report released on Friday.
Premier Li Keqiang has pledged greater support to flood-hit areas in Henan province to expedite steps for post-disaster reconstruction, saying that lessons must be drawn from the floods to strengthen weak areas in urban development.
So far, 22 aquatic seed production units across China have donated 69,000 kilograms of frys and fingerlings, including carp and loach, which will be transported to the rain and flood-hit area to support the restoration of aquaculture production in 14 severely affected counties and cities in Central China's Henan province, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
Floods will continue to cause damage and pose hazards in many parts of China this month due to heavy rain, the Ministry of Emergency Management said.
Henan provincial officials have issued funding totaling almost 5 billion yuan since July 22 to accelerate post-disaster recovery after unprecedented flooding killed at least 302 people, and destroyed homes and crops.
620 villages in Central China’s flood-ravaged Henan province will benefit from a silt-cleanup program funded by the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation.
Zhang Quande, a doctor at People's Hosiptal in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region, saved two emergency patients during train trips in late July.
The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner, has delivered the first batch of fertilizer to the rain-battered Henan province to ensure the need for post-disaster agricultural production.
Ten days after floodwaters claimed the lives of six people in the Jingguang Expressway tunnel in downtown Zhengzhou, Henan province, traffic slowly resumed.
The death toll from torrential rains in Central China's Henan province has risen to 302 as of Monday noon, the information office of the provincial government said at a news briefing on Monday afternoon. Another 50 people remain missing, said the office.
After rainstorm-triggered floods ravaged Central China's Henan province recently, a 150-second video circulating online raised public concerns about the hardships of disadvantaged groups facing natural disasters.
NEW YORK－People with Chinese roots in New York are donating money to help flood-hit Henan province restore livelihoods and production.
Authorities in Zhengzhou, capital of Henan province, have simplified procedures for dealing with damage to cars that was caused by unprecedented rainfall and flooding about two weeks ago.
Chinese Americans in New York are donating money to help flood-hit people in central China's Henan province to restore life and production.
What if your beloved family members are facing death but you're unable to rush to the scene and all emergency hotlines are busy?
Recently, Henan province of Central China has been hit by torrential rains. Beate Trankmann, representative of the United Nations Development Program in China, released a video message of support and encouragement to people affected by the heavy rainfall, calling for people to be more proactive in responding to frequent extreme weather around the world.
Providing timely relief and preventing flood-borne diseases are key tasks as more than a million people have been relocated after torrential rains hit Henan province, a local official said on Friday.
Taiwan business people and enterprises have donated funds and materials worth more than 200 million yuan (about $30.96 million) to support the flood control and disaster relief in Henan province.
People from across China continue to support people in Henan province whose lives have been affected by the devastating recent flood. As of Thursday noon, 99 people had died in connection with the deluge.
China's agriculture authority is ramping up efforts to ensure ample food supply in China amid extreme weather conditions this year that have posed challenges to the nation's food production in some areas, the Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs said on Friday.
Rescuers and local residents reinforce the embankment in Xunxian county, Central China's Henan province.
Most bullet trains operated by China Railway Zhengzhou Group resumed services on Thursday after torrential rains halted their operation in Central China's Henan province, the national railway operator said on Friday.
The death toll in Central China's Henan province from heavy rainfall and flooding has reached 99 as of noon Thursday, and over 13.91 million people were affected, the latest figures from the provincial government showed.
A total of 204,000 people have been relocated due to heavy rainfall and severe flooding in Weihui, Henan province, and a number of disaster relief and recovery measures have been implemented, local officials said on Wednesday.
More than 13.66 million have been impacted by last week’s deadly rains, which killed at least 73 and affected over 1 million hectares of crops.
Agricultural production recovery gets a boost as machinery, including water pumps, are dispatched to Henan province to drain flooded fields and prepare land for plowing and replanting at the proper time.
Thanks to solid prevention and timely evaluation, geological disasters played no role in causing casualties or injuries in rain-ravaged Henan province, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday.
The flood and other downpour-induced disasters have claimed 73 lives in Central China's Henan province since July 16, affecting 13.66 million residents across the province's 16 cities and 150 counties, a senior official said on Wednesday.
After six days and five nights of urgent work, including the unloading of the last truck of sand and stone, the more-than-100-meter breach on the bank of a canal in Xinxiang city, Henan province, was finally repaired on Monday. The canal was breached by floods triggered by torrential rainfall last week, threatening tens of thousands of people who live nearby. China Daily photographers Wang Jing and Wu Xiaohui report from Xinxiang.
A 32-year-old police officer who saved 51 people from the floods in Henan province and was swept away by a surge of water has recounted his extraordinary survival tale.
As Henan province mops up from the floodwaters that caused 71 deaths and affected more than 13.3 million people last week, it is bracing for more heavy rain from Typhoon In-Fa.
China has earmarked 3 billion yuan (about $463.43 million) to support flood control and disaster recovery in the central province of Henan, the Ministry of Finance said.
A large number of advanced technologies have been used in China's all-out efforts to ramp up flood control and disaster relief in Central China's Henan province. Here are some of the highlights.
Over 100,000 kg of seeds collected from multiple resources to ensure grain production recovery following fatal floods that battered Central China’s Henan province.
Death toll reaches 71 as of noon Tuesday in Central China’s Henan province as authorities continue rescue operations and prepare for second round of heavy rainfall.
As of Tuesday morning, bus services in some rain-ravaged cities in Central China’s Henan province have resumed operation, the local transport authority said.
People from across China driving all manner of daily necessities, including fresh vegetables, to Henan province to ease people's lives in the flood-affected province.
Death toll from Henan floods climbs to 71 as of noon Tuesday.
Two more people were found dead after being trapped in the subway in Zhengzhou, Henan province, on July 20 as record-breaking torrential rain hit the city and poured into the subway tunnel, the city's flood control and drought relief authority said on Tuesday.
Yu Yifei, a 26-year-old medical intern at People's Hospital of Zhengzhou in Henan province, saved about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train when torrential rain lashed the city on July 20.
Zhou Jing, who runs a dessert shop in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, messaged her hairdresser for an appointment last week, expecting the customary quick reply.
Premier Li Keqiang called on Monday for stronger early warning and first response mechanisms to beef up flood control and disaster relief measures, saying that the central government will mobilize a fund of several billion yuan from its contingency reserve to help floodhit areas.
About 0.3 percent of the farmland involving autumn crops will have no harvest after inundated by recent flooding in Henan province — a small amount without much impact — according to the provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Transport authority reports 96 percent of bus services restored to flood-ravaged Zhengzhou by Sunday afternoon, as taxis, ride hailing resume.
As of noon Monday, the death toll from floods in Central China's Henan province has risen to 69, with five people missing, the provincial government said at a news conference.
Chinese companies lent a helping hand by making contributions and offering emergency aid services for disaster relief in Central China's Henan province, where the torrential rainfall caused casualties and property losses.
Henan river breach sealed after tireless work
A river bank with a 40-meter break at the Xinzhen town section of Weihe River was successfully sealed at 2:27 am on Monday at Xinzhen town, Juxian county of Henan province.
Authorities in Central China's Henan province are racing against the clock to restore normalcy after more than a week of downpours inundated homes, overfilled rivers and reservoirs, killed 63 people and left five missing as of noon on Sunday, a local official said.
