Severe recent flooding across central and southern China has killed around 130 people, damaged more than 1.9 million hectares of cropland and led to direct economic losses of more than 38 billion yuan (US$5.7 billion), the government has said. More than 1.3 million people have been forced to evacuate their homes and relocate.
More than 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) of cropland had been damaged and another 295,000 hectares had been destroyed, resulting in direct economic losses of 38.2 billion yuan. More than 40,000 buildings have also collapsed.
According to Chinas leading fuel retailer Sinopec, as reported in PetrolPlaza, more than 300 petrol stations have been out of operations since mid-June and more than 250 stations have been considered unsafe to use. In one city, around 3 tonnes of petrol and diesel leaked from a filling station contaminating floodwater that flowed into a nearby river.
Water in 43 rivers in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River had exceeded warning levels and patrols were monitoring dykes, Xinhua quoted Chen Guiya, an official with the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, as saying.
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