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| Vehicles run in the flooded road in Jinjiang City, east China's Fujian Province, August 10, 2007. Tropical storm Wutip, which has weakened to a tropical depression, brought rainstorm to Fujian Friday. |
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| A pavilion is submerged as the largest flood peak of Yangtze River went through Wuhan, capital of central China's Hubei Province on August 5, 2007. The biggest flood peak on the Yangtze River so far this year has safely passed the city and gone into its lower reaches, local flood control authorities said on Monday. |
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| Local residents trapped during a flood are moved to a safe area in Tongzi County, southwest China's Guizhou Province July 30, 2007. Deaths from floods, lightning and landslides across China this summer have reached nearly 700, Xinhua News Agency said on Monday, with experts warning that global warming is likely to fuel more violent weather. |
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| Chinese soldiers carry sandbags to reinforce the embankment of Huaihe River in Fengtai, east China's Anhui Province, July 26, 2007. Continuous rainstorms have continued to raise the water levels of many rivers across China, putting the lives of millions of people at risk and causing huge economic losses. |
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| Soldiers reinforce dikes with sandbags in fear of breaches after weeks of pressure from high water levels on the swollen Huai River in Wuhe, east China's Anhui Province July 24, 2007. |
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| Chinese president Hu Jintao talks with flood-stricken residents in southwest China's Chongqing on July 22, 2007. |
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| Pedestrians manage their way through a flooded street in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality July 18, 2007. Record-breaking rainstorms in 115 years lashed Chongqing, killing 32 people with 12 others missing. As many as 2.72 million people and 22 counties have been affected with a severe shortage of clean drinking water, power supplies, disturbed transportation and communications. |
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| Chinese farmers inspect the bank along the Huaihe River in Yingshang, East China's Anhui Province, July 15, 2007. Flood-battered residents along the Huaihe River have been urged to brace for another soaking with more torrential rains expected in the next week. |
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| Kids are having fun at a safer "island" enclosed by surrounding flood waters in the Mengwa flood diversion area in east China's Anhui Province, on July 12, 2007. |
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| Doctors with a mobile medical team do physical checks for residents of Wangjiaba village in Mengwa flood diversion area in Anhui province, on July 12, 2007. |
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| Flood water is discharged through the sluice on the Three Gorges Dam July 9, 2007. Continuous downpour on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River has resulted in this year's heaviest flood, with 40,500 cubic meters of water flowing into the Three Gorges Reservoir every second. |
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| A man walks barefoot and cars move on a flooded street after a sudden downpour in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province, July 4, 2007. |
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