Flooding Throughout the Year, the Year of China Disaster Grief 701 Floating Life

This year a period of mourning for China.

More than a thousand people dead and missing victims of the floods in half-year period.

Flooding so far this year, which resulted in losses of tens of millions of dollars, has recorded the highest death toll since 1998. In that year the overflowing flood of the Yangtze River, with severe elevation level for five decades, 4150 to drown the soul. In addition, 18 million people have been evacuated due to the disaster.

The total death toll in the floods so far this year reached 701 people. While 347 other people were reported missing. The data are expressed the Secretary-General of Disaster Management Agency Flood, Liu Nang, in a press conference in Beijing yesterday (21 / 7) as reported by Agence France-Presse.

Liu did not say how many casualties are falling since June, when extreme rainfall decreased. However, he said 187 people were killed and 173 missing in the last two weeks.

Tens of thousands of homes and buildings damaged by floods and landslides. Economic losses due to the disaster to reach USD 21 billion (USD 190 billion) and direct impact to the 110 million population.

Floods have dominated the attention of the people of China in recent weeks. Every day, local television broadcast dramatic images of the villagers were rescued from the swift river currents.

According to Liu, the annual rainy season still continues, at least until August. In fact, the rainy season this year, he added, could be longer. Therefore, the government raced dam building projects and other water control, especially toward the cyclone season in East Asia.

''Because 60-80 percent of the annual rainy season occurs in June, July, and August, we must be prepared to prevent and fight against floods,''Liu said as quoted by the Associated Press.

Chanthu tropical storms predicted across the region Hainan Island, South China and Guangdong Province, this weekend. In addition, there are 6-8 typhoons so far this year. Throughout this season,''torrential rains and major floods,''said Liu warned.