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Mandy Zuo

At least five people are dead and 120,000 people displaced after days of heavy downpours led to floods and landslides in the northern Chinese province of Shanxi.
The largely arid province has reported more than five times its usual rainfall since the start of the month, resulting in the destruction of dams and rail lines.
Shanxi’s emergency management department said on Sunday that 1.75 million people had been affected and more than 17,000 buildings had collapsed.
The province, a major coal producer, also shut 60 coal mines, adding to concerns over supplies of the fuel as the country battles a power shortage and northern China’s heating season approaches.

According to mainland media reports, four traffic police officers were killed and another was injured in a landslide in Pu county in the city of Linfen on Tuesday.
Further north, the city of Luliang reported one death caused by a rain-induced landslide on Monday.
Work at more than 1,000 building projects was suspended, and more than 160 scenic sites were closed amid the record rainfall, the department said on Friday.
Dams on several sections of the Wuma River collapsed, forcing 15,000 people from eight villages to abandon their homes.

Heavy rain also destroyed foundations for a railway crossing over the Changyuan River in Qi county, leaving rail track dangling, according to footage posted online.
Historical sites were also damaged in the rain, including the ancient city wall of Pingyao, and the Jin Temple near Taiyuan, the earliest classical ancestral temple complex in the country.


Downpours also battered neighbouring Shaanxi province, with more than 18,000 people forced to abandon their homes when a dam burst on the Luo River, a major tributary of the Yellow River, the second longest in China.
The Yellow River, part of which passes through Shaanxi and Shanxi, is also in its third flood of the year due to persistent rain, according to the Ministry of Water Resources.
China has seen more torrential rain this year than normal, according to a summary of natural disasters in the first three quarters of the year released by the Ministry of Emergency Management on Sunday.
In total, 792 people died or were missing in natural disasters between January and September, it said.
This was a 14 per cent drop from the average in the past five years, but over 70 per cent of the tragedies happened in torrential rain and floods, it said.
In mid and late July, extreme precipitation hit central China’s Henan province, leaving 302 people dead and 50 missing, including 15 people who died in a flooded subway in the provincial capital of Zhengzhou.


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(211008) -- TAIYUAN, Oct. 8, 2021 (Xinhua) -- A breached dyke is closed near Qiaodong Village of Xinjiang County in Yuncheng, north China's Shanxi Province, Oct. 8, 2021. A nearly 20-meter-long breach was closed Friday in a section of the Fenhe River, a major tributary of the Yellow River, in north China's Shanxi Province. The section in Xinjiang County saw the largest flood crest in nearly 40 years due to continuous rainfall and water from the upper reaches. The flooding resulted in a breach at about 5 p.m. Thursday near Qiaodong Village, according to the county government. (Xinhua/Ma Yimin)

Days of heavy rains in north ChinaÕs Shanxi province have forced 120,000 people to relocate and caused floods and landslides that resulted in at least five deaths.  Photo: PeopleÕs Daily

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Changzhuang Reservoir was forced to discharge excess water. Photo: Simon Song

(210722) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 22, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on July 22, 2021 shows rescuers using rafts to evacuate people from the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in Zhongmu County of Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province. The natural disaster has inflicted damage on many hospitals in Henan, with patients and medical staff stuck inside, waiting to be evacuated, including the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in the county of Zhongmu, under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. Days of rainstorms have caused severe flooding in the hospital. On Thursday morning, rescuers started transporting patients, their family members and medical staff elsewhere. About 5,000 people have been evacuated so far. TO GO WITH "China Focus: Race to evacuate patients as hospitals flooded by rainstorms" (Xinhua/Cai Yang)

China floods: Zhengzhou tries to get back on its feet after heavy rains displace over 1.2 million people

City residents wade through heavy flood waters. Photo: AP

(210720) -- ZHENGZHOU, July 20, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Danger signs are installed on a waterlogged road in Zhengzhou, capital of central China's Henan Province, July 20, 2021.  More than 144,660 residents have been affected by torrential rains in central China's Henan Province since July 16, and 10,152 have been relocated to safe places, the provincial flood control and drought relief headquarters said Tuesday.  A total of 16 large and medium-sized reservoirs have seen water levels rise above the alert level after torrential rains battered most parts of the province on Monday and Tuesday. (Photo by Hou Jianxun/Xinhua)

This photo taken on July 20, 2021 shows people wading through flood waters along a street following heavy rains in Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT

(210721) -- DENGFENG, July 21, 2021 (Xinhua) -- Rescuers transfer stranded villagers in Longtou Village, Dengfeng City of central China's Henan Province, July 20, 2021. Longtou Village was hit by mountain torrents on Tuesday. Rescuers have transferred over 50 villagers to safer places. (Xinhua/Hao Yuan)

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Persistent downpours have brought five times the usual amount of rain to the normally arid area
Dams have collapsed, and coal mines have closed, adding fuel supply fears



Persistent downpours have brought five times the usual amount of rain to the normally arid area.


Five dead, thousands displaced in floods in China’s Shanxi province

Persistent downpours have brought five times the usual amount of rain to the normally arid area Dams have collapsed, and coal mines have closed, adding fuel supply fears

Persistent downpours have brought five times the usual amount of rain to the normally arid area

Dams have collapsed, and coal mines have closed, adding fuel supply fears