China raises emergency response degree for floods in northeast

SHANGHAI: Authorities in northeastern China raised their emergency response degree on Sunday as tributaries of the Songhua, a significant river, rose to harmful ranges after days of heavy rain brought on by Storm Doksuri.

China’s Ministry of Water Assets stated it raised the response for flooding to Stage III at 10 a.m. (0200 GMT) in Internal Mongolia, Jilin and Heilongjiang. China makes use of a four-tier emergency response system, with Stage I essentially the most pressing.
Heilongjiang, often called China’s “nice northern granary”, is among the many newest areas to undergo the aftermath of Doksuri, which has killed a minimum of 20 individuals, displaced 1000’s and flooded Beijing and a number of other different cities because it made landfall within the south every week in the past.