Xi Jinping Visits Flood Site in China Amid Worst Flooding in 100 Years

Three Gorges Dam Releases 74,000㎥ per Second
Typhoon Higos Makes Landfall in Guangdong Province

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Jo Young-shin] As flood damage snowballed, Xi Jinping (習近平), President of China, visited flood-hit areas for two consecutive days to comfort the flood victims and listen to their opinions.

President Xi appears to have visited the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (長江), which have been devastated by heavy rain lasting more than two months, to win public support.

According to China's state-run People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency on the 20th (local time), President Xi visited Hefei (合肥) City in Anhui (安徽) Province the day before.

President Xi visited the Feidong County ecological wetland flood storage area to inspect the local flood and damage recovery situation and comfort the disaster victims. On the 18th, President Xi visited Funan County, Fuyang City, Anhui Province to comfort the flood victims.

President Xi's external inspection activities came about a month after his visit to Changchun (長春), Jilin (吉林) Province at the end of last month.

Despite urgent external issues such as US-China conflicts, President Xi's two consecutive days of visits to flood-hit areas indicate the severity of flood damage in China.

Since June, large-scale floods centered on the Yangtze River basin have caused 63.46 million displaced people. Economic losses are estimated to exceed 178.96 billion yuan (approximately 30.5323 trillion Korean won).

This year marks the fifth flood in the Yangtze River and Yellow River (黃河), putting the middle and lower reaches of these rivers on high alert again.

On the 20th, the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission of the Ministry of Water Resources of China warned that 74,000 cubic meters of water per second would flow into the Three Gorges (三峽) Dam, China's largest dam. Additional flooding in the middle and lower reaches due to discharge is inevitable.

Moreover, Typhoon No. 7 'Higos' made landfall in Guangdong (廣東) Province, forecasting another heavy rain bomb.

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