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Unusually heavy rains have wraged in central and southwest China, killing many people and disrupting the recovery of the pandemic economy.
By Steven Lee Myers
After largely controlling the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese leaders are now grappling with a wave of crippling floods that have killed many others and displaced millions of others in the country’s central and southwestern regions.
Flooding on the Yangtze River peaked this week in Sichuan Province and the expanding city of Chongqing, while the Three Gorges Dam, 280 miles downriver, peaked since it began retaining water in 2003.
This year’s floods did not spread like an herbal disaster of singles, with massive loss of life and property, but as a slow and ruthless series of smaller ones, whose combined numbers have continued to rise even as official reports have focused on government relief efforts. Training
“The Chinese country has battled herb mistakes for thousands of years, gaining valuable experience on Tuesday, the country’s leader, Xi Jinping, said after a stopover in Anhui, another flooded province downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. “We’ll have to keep fighting.”
Xi called China’s crisis relief efforts a “practical control of our military’s command and leadership system.” He spoke to the relatives of 3 other people who died in the flood fight and on Wednesday spoke to the officers of the People’s Liberation Army and the People’s Armed Police, who participated in the relief effort.
Public appearances in flood-affected spaces through Xi and Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang underlined the severity of the crisis, which has dealt some other blow to a still-pan-pressure economy.
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