Mobile telephone services have been basically restored to mudslide-hit Zhouqu county in Northwest China's Gansu province, but fixed-line network was still under repair, Chinese telecom operators said Monday.
The death toll from rain-triggered mudslides in Zhouqu County of Northwest China's Gansu province has risen to 137 as of 4:07 pm Monday, with 1,348 others still missing, said the provincial civil affairs department.
Hong Kong Red Cross (HKRC) announced Monday that it will allocate relief supplies worth 900, 000 HK dollars (about $115,950 ) to mudslide-flattened Zhouqu in Northwest China after its disaster evaluation.
He Xinchao, 44, a father and head of Yueyuan village of Zhouqu county, survived the devastating landslide that killed at least 127 people around midnight on Saturday in Zhouqu in the Gannan Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Northwest China's Gansu province.
A senior Chinese environmental official has said almost all the chemical barrels that were washed into a major river last week have been recovered.
Northeast China's Liaoning province Thursday suspended shipping services and tourism on the Yalu River,as more rain was forecast to hit the already swollen waterway.
Continuous rains in Northeast China's Jilin province are raising pressures on already strained reservoirs, many of which have had to discharge water or risk embankment breaches.
Forecast expects rains to continue in NW China
Flooding this year will not reach 1998 levels
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers and armed police have been urged to protect lives and properties in the ongoing flood control and relief work.
China's National Meteorological Center forecast Thursday that heavy rains would continue during the next 24 hours in Northeast China, a region already soaked following weeks of torrential rains.
About 30,000 local residents of four townships in Nong'an county of Northeast China's Jilin province have been evacuated over fears a new round of downpours could cause more floods.
More than 80 percent of people in a survey blamed the flood disasters in recent months on a destroyed natural ecosystem.
The country's top flood control authority on Wednesday discounted the possibility that this year will witness huge floods or related crises akin to those of 1998.
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