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China battling extreme weather as rains take toll

July 5, 2023

China is making ongoing efforts to battle extreme weather, as rain-triggered floods wreak havoc in southern and central parts of the country.

The latest round of torrential rains since Monday had killed 15 people and left four others missing in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, as of 7 a.m. Wednesday, local authorities said.

Transcription (English): YANG SHIYAN, Xinhua correspondent "Now I am at Wanzhou District, southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality. Continuous heavy rainfall hit regions including southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality, causing heavy casualties and property losses. Now authorities at all levels have given top priority to ensuring people’s safety and property, and strived to minimize various losses in the work regarding flood prevention and disaster relief.The city’s emergency response headquarters office has raised the relief response to Level III, allocating more than 29,000 items of disaster relief supplies, including tents, blankets and folding beds, to Wanzhou District, the hardest-hit area, where record-high rainfall was seen.China earmarked 320 million yuan (about 44.46 million U.S. dollars) on Wednesday from its central natural-disaster relief funds to support flood and geological disaster relief work in regions including Chongqing and Sichuan."Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Chongqing, China.