Flooding Brings Heavy Losses to East China

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Last updated at: (Beijing Time) Friday, July 11, 2003

Flooding Brings Heavy Losses to East China

East China's Jiangsu province has been ravaged by the worst flooding since 1991, resulting in nearly 10 billion yuan (about 1.2 billion US dollars) in direct losses.

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East China's Jiangsu province has been ravaged by the worst flooding since 1991, resulting in nearly 10 billion yuan (about 1.2 billion US dollars) in direct losses.

Preliminary figures so far available indicate that losses have reached 9.45 billion yuan (some 1.14 billion US dollars), with 1.5 million ha of cropland flattened, 110,000 rooms collapsed and 143,000 local people evacuated.

According to the Flood Control Headquaters in Jiangsu province,the flooding is becoming increasingly serious, as the water level in Hongze Lake, the country's fourth largest freshwater lake in east China, keeps rising.

By nine a.m. Friday, it added, its water level had reached 14.25 meters, the highest this year and 0.19 meters higher than that of 1991.

As the flood situation remains grave, 100,400 victimized localshave been evacuated in preparation for the diversion of floodwaterfrom the lake, the headquarters noted.

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