State-owned enterprises have sent teams to aid flood stricken areas in east, central and southern China, all hard hit by torrential rain since the summer began.

Workers in Gansu restore telecommunication networks in Cheng County, severely damaged by torrential rains last June. [Xinhua]

State Grid's Fujian electric company reinstalls power lines in Nanping, Fujian Province, hit by heavy flooding in June. Within a month, power was restored to more than 70 percent of Fujian's 580,000 impacted residents. [Xinhua]

Emergency response workers tended to damaged power and telecommunication systems, as well as railways and dams .

Electricity facilities and solutions supplier State Grid repaired 13 transformer substations and 1,000 high voltage wires in mid July. Its team of 20,000 technicians restored power to more than 1 million users.

State Grid's Fujian electric company sent 11,000 technicians to reinstall power lines and wire poles in Nanping and Sanming. Within a month, power was restored to more than 70 percent of Fujian's 580,000 impacted residents.

After an embankment collapsed in northeast Jiangxi's Qianshan County, toppling a State Grid transformer substation, electricity was restored in 10 hours.

China Three Gorges Corp decided to relieve flood pressure on the massive Yangtze River dam after floodwaters reached dangerous levels, the highest since its construction.

Waters below the dam were reduced to 40,000 cu m a second, freeing 100,000 workers from keeping watch over embankments, saving at least 10 million yuan.

China Telecom, one of the nation's major telecommunication operator, sent out more than 10,000 technicians and more than 3,300 vehicles to flood stricken areas by the end of June, restoring 90 percent of provincial telecommunication networks.

Oil and energy supplier Sinopec began security checks on gas stations, oil stores and drainage ditches in affected areas. It also held emergency operation drills.

Two Sinopec trucks arrived at the site of landslides in Guanling County late last June, providing emergency workers with an around the clock fuel supply.

The Nanping branch of Sinopec Fujian Co delivered fuel to a damaged water treatment plant using more than 500 vehicles by the end of July.

And China Railway Engineering Corp (CREC) was also working hard.

A number of rail sections in Fujian and Jiangxi provinces were blocked due to mudslides caused by June's heavy rain. CREC's local branches worked for 21 consecutive days to clear the tracks and ensure continued service.

Airline companies also made efforts in the relief work.

Four China Eastern Airlines planes, outfitted with pontoons flew from Shanghai, Jiangsu and Jiangxi to Nanjing and Lianyungang to provide assistance. The emergency mission took only six hours.

(Xinhua News Agency September 7, 2010)