Off the wire
• Roundup: Laura Zeng turns Golden Girl, Canada wins basketball gold at Pan Am Games  • China's state guesthouse sues Philips over false advertising  • Myanmar fishermen to be repatriated from India  • Interview: China, Thailand enjoy extensive, frequent, high-quality cultural exchanges  • Peking University launches new online programming courses  • Antarctic ice study provides new insight into climate change: New Zealand scientists  • Commentary: Old grudges may die hard as U.S., Cuba restore ties  • Australian hunter in pursuit of world record sized problem crocodile  • Singapore's economic growth is unlikely to weaken in the second half of 2015  • Over 7,000 illegal boats stopped from intruding into Singapore's waters in 2014  
You are here: 　 Home

4,230 evacuated in S China rainstorm

Xinhua, July 21, 2015 Adjust font size:

Heavy downpours since Sunday in the southernmost island province of Hainan have forced 4,230 people to evacuate, according to local flood control authorities on Tuesday.

Dongfang City was worst hit in the rainstorm with precipitation of more than 500 mm, according to the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters.

An elderly man from Basuo Township went missing in the storm.

Some 168,000 people were affected and 4,230 people have been evacuated in Dongfang City, with 18 of its 38 reservoirs discharging flood water. Endi