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China combats Huaihe River flooding
( 2003-07-10 15:32) (newsphoto.com.cn)
People's Liberation Army soldiers evacuate
residents in East China's Jiangsu Province, due to flooding from the
Huaihe River. The water level in Hongze Lake in Jiangsu continues to
climb with the continuous heavy rain throughout the region. By 8:00
a.m. Thursday, the water level in the lake had reached 14.14 meters, 0.08
meters above the maximum reached in 1999, when the lake was hit by one of
the worst floods in China's history. About 68,000 people living near
Hongze were evacuated in preparation for water diversion.
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More than 250 oil wells around Hongze Lake are
submerged in floodwater in east China's Jiangsu Province.
[newsphoto.com.cn] |
Factories and residential buildings submerged
in floodwater in Jiangsu. [newsphoto.com.cn]
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