Monday, June 20, 2011
Floods in China, More than 170 Killed and Missing
Posted on Monday, June 20, 2011 by Galih
Executive summary about Flood in China By Viva News
As many as 170 people dead and missing from floods that hit eastern and southern China. More than five million people even had to evacuate due to flooding in eastern China.
Floods that swept not only devastating to the citizens but also trigger a rise in food prices. Heavy rain which flushed a large area of Hubei and Zhejiang provinces also resulted in more than 1 million acres (432,200 hectares) of farmland inundated.
Even the nearly 1,000 companies can not operate paralyzed and 5.7 million people can not move normally. As a result of this great flood, more than 7,000 houses collapsed and damaged. Estimated, losses due to floods reach 6 billion yuan (930 million U.S. dollars).
Heavy rain which flushed also triggered landslides and buried houses and killed two people in Zhejiang Changshan district. Flooding also claimed two dead and two missing people swept away in Hubei.
Flooding that resulted in 170 people dead and missing is making some roads blocked trains. Consequently, any relief supplies was stopped. China's weather bureau predicted that the weather will be sunny again on Monday, tomorrow.
As reported by Xinhua, the flooding this time is the worst flooding in 20 years. This flood vegetable production decreased 20 percent and led to shortages of fruit and seeds. Vegetable prices soar even higher by 40 percent, adding 5.5 percent inflation rate.
Although the increase in the consumer price index reported last week in line with expectations, but higher than 5.3 percent in April and 5.4 percent in March. China National Statistics Bureau said the main factor was 11.7 percent jump in food prices.
Food prices are soaring so-called due to flood impacts were also reported in the eastern province of Anhui and Jiangxi.
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Floods that swept not only devastating to the citizens but also trigger a rise in food prices. Heavy rain which flushed a large area of Hubei and Zhejiang provinces also resulted in more than 1 million acres (432,200 hectares) of farmland inundated.
Even the nearly 1,000 companies can not operate paralyzed and 5.7 million people can not move normally. As a result of this great flood, more than 7,000 houses collapsed and damaged. Estimated, losses due to floods reach 6 billion yuan (930 million U.S. dollars).
Heavy rain which flushed also triggered landslides and buried houses and killed two people in Zhejiang Changshan district. Flooding also claimed two dead and two missing people swept away in Hubei.
Flooding that resulted in 170 people dead and missing is making some roads blocked trains. Consequently, any relief supplies was stopped. China's weather bureau predicted that the weather will be sunny again on Monday, tomorrow.
As reported by Xinhua, the flooding this time is the worst flooding in 20 years. This flood vegetable production decreased 20 percent and led to shortages of fruit and seeds. Vegetable prices soar even higher by 40 percent, adding 5.5 percent inflation rate.
Although the increase in the consumer price index reported last week in line with expectations, but higher than 5.3 percent in April and 5.4 percent in March. China National Statistics Bureau said the main factor was 11.7 percent jump in food prices.
Food prices are soaring so-called due to flood impacts were also reported in the eastern province of Anhui and Jiangxi.
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