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| | |  | | | A dyke is being dug to channel water flooding into Bijiaxiang, Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, back into the Weihe River, September 11, 2003. About 4,000 cubic meters of water is expected to flow through the 200-meter-gap per second; 5-10 days will be needed to discharge of the water. Weihe River is a tributary of the Yellow River where recent heavy rains have forced water levels to soar.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Zhao Hebi, a 84-year-old (C), is carried to by China's Armed Police to safe area as an embankment burst of Luowen River, a tributary of the Weihe River, submerged his house in Huaxian County, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, September 6, 2003. [Xinhua] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Villagers queue up for waterin Shaoyang County in Central China's Hunan Province August 11, 2003. All 54 hectares of field in the county's village of Dahu have been suffering from severe drought. Many farmers have to leave the village to search for drinking water. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Zhu Zhiping, an evacuated villager from a flooded area, takes care of her two grandchildren at her temporary home settled at Xinglong middle school in Xuyi County in east China's Jiangsu Province Friday, July 11, 2003. Villagers suffering from floods of Huaihe River were all evacuated. More than 400 people will live at the school. [Xinhua]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A huge oil-pumping machine is partly submerged in flood in Shengjiaba, Jiangsu Oil Field on July 11. More than 250 oil wells in Jiangsu Oil Field have been flooded and another dozens of oil wells were forced to stop production due to the floods in Huaihe River and a 20-hour continuous rainstorm in northern Jiangsu. [newsphoto.com.cn]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | The Longmen Grottoes suffered from successive rains with nearby roads inundated with nearly one metre of water. The world heritage site, in Luoyang, Henan Province, has been closed since August 31 when floodwaters rushed into the spot as a reservoir near it opened a sluice to release a torrent. The water levels peaked Monday afternoon and began to retreat on Tuesday. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A farmer guides a flock of sheep from flooded areas to a safe place in Xuyi, East China's Jiangsu Province July 10, 2003. By 3:00 p.m. Thursday, all 68,000 residents of Xuyu, located by Hongze Lake, were evacuated to a safe place in preparation for water diversion. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Soldiers evacuate residents in East China's Jiangsu Province, due to flooding from the Huaihe River. The water level in Hongze Lake in Jiangsu continues to climb with the continuous heavy rain throughout the region. By 8:00 a.m. Thursday, the water level in the lake had reached 14.14 meters, 0.08 meters above the maximum reached in 1999, when the lake was hit by one of the worst floods in China's history. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | The valiant efforts of armed police who repaired a collapsing dyke in East China on the evening of July 8, 2003, saved more than 1 million people at risk from serious flooding. The collapsed dyke on the Chuhe River, which flows across Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, threatened the Beijing-Shanghai railway artery and Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu Province, 50 kilometres away, said officials with the Anhui flood control department. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Two People’s Liberation Army soldiers carry an old man to safety in Shouxian, East China’s Anhui Province on July 13, 2003. A main dam on the Bihe River -- a tributary of the Huaihe River -- cracked early in the morning July 13 besieging more than 31,000 people, most of whom have been evacuated. No deaths or injuries were reported. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Workers prepare to make sandbags to protect the main road from river flooding near a flag of Chinese Communist Party hoisted Saturday, July 12, 2003 in Fengyang, Anhui Province, China. More than a million people in eastern China were stranded due to floods and rain-fed landslides which have already claimed over 200 lives nationwide since early June, and more heavy rain was forecast, officials and state media said. More deaths were reported in eastern Anhui province.[AP]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A villager looks at his village submerged beneath floodwaters on July 6, 2003, after a dyke on Huaihe River dyke was blasted to allow water to flow into the lower reaches of Tangduo Lake in East China's Anhui Province. Roads and fields adjacent to the dyke were immediately submerged as the torrent was released. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A boy walks through a flooded street during a downpour in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, July 5, 2003. The sudden rainfall reached 194.5 millimeters (7.66 inches) from 00:00 to12:00 in Nanjing July 5, and it was the heaviest rainfall in the city in 72 years, according to the local meteorological station. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | Diverted flood water roars towards 12,000 hectares of farmland at the Wangjiaba section of the Huaihe River in Anhui Province after the sluice gates were opened early Wednesday morning. Nearly 15,000 people living near the section were evacuated by Wednesday afternoon. [newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A motorcyclist keeps his feet up as he rides along a flooded road in Changsha, capital city of Central China's Hunan Province Thursday, June 26, 2003. The past several days have seen Hunan hit by the heaviest rains of the year. China has issued an early warning on flood risk for this summer as more rains are expected.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A river dries up in Shaoyang County in Central China's Hunan Province August 11, 2003. All 54 hectares of field in the county's village of Dahu have been suffering from severe drought. Many farmers have to leave the village to search for drinking water. [newsphoto.com.cn]
| | | | | | | | | | | | |  | | | A house in the Juzizhou area in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan Province, is surrounded by flood water Sunday. The province has been hit by the year's first floods caused by heavy rain in the Xiangjiang River basin.[newsphoto.com.cn] | | | | | | | | | |
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