2010 China floods

2010 China Floods

Flooding along the Gan River in Zhangshu, Jiangxi
Date 10 May – September 2010
Location 28 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities in the People's Republic of China;
North Korea
Deaths 3,189+ dead,[1][2][3] at least 1,056 missing[4][5]
Property damage 51.4 billion USD[1][6][7]

The 2010 China floods began in early May 2010.[8][9][10] 392 people had died, and a further 232 people had been reported missing as of June 30, 2010,[11][12] including 57 people in a landslide in Guizhou. 53 of the deaths occurred from the flooding and landslides between May 31 and June 3,[13] and 266 deaths occurred between June 13 and June 29.[14] 424 people were killed by the end of June,[11] including 42 from the Guizhou landslide; 277 more were killed and 147 left missing in the first two weeks of July,[15][16][17] bringing the death toll as of August 5 to 1,072.[2][4] A landslide in early August in Gansu killed at least 1,471 people and left 294 missing. In total, the flooding and landslides killed at least 3,185 people in China by August 31.[1] More than 230 million people[1][18] in 28 provinces, municipalities and regions,[6][2][11] especially the southern and central provinces and regions of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Chongqing Municipality, Gansu, Sichuan and Guizhou, and the northeastern province of Jilin have been affected, while at least 4.66 million people[19] have been evacuated because of the risk of flooding and landslides in the latter half of June.[5][20][21][22][23] By early August, over 12 million people had been evacuated,[6][2] and that number rose to 15.2 million by August 31.[1]

Millions lack drinking water. A total of 1.36 million houses have been destroyed[6][2] and more than 97,200 square kilometres (37,500 sq mi) of crops had been inundated,[19] while 8,000 km2 (3,100 sq mi) of farmland had been completely destroyed by the end of June.[24] Dozens of rivers remain in flood, including the Pearl River in Guangdong province,[23] which was impacted by severe drought during the spring as its outflow was severely reduced.[25] The total damages from the floods were roughly 83.8 billion yuan as of June 27, 2010,[19] and over 275 billion yuan (41 billion USD) by August 8.[6][2] By late August, 16.5 million hectares[1] of farmland have been affected by the flooding, while 2.09 million hectares have been completely destroyed.[6][11]

In late May 2010, heavy rainfall caused a train derailment in Jiangxi, killing at least 19 people, and the closure of the Shanghai-Kunming railway line for 24 hours due to a landslide.

Many major rivers in China, including the Yangtze, Yellow and Songhua Rivers have been flooded to danger levels. The Chinese Government has allocated over 2.1 billion yuan for rescue and relief work.[2] The Jialing River, Han River and Huai River have also surged higher than warning levels.[26]

Effects

Total rainfall in southern China, June 15–21
Total rainfall in southern China, July 6–12

The grim situation of the 2010 South China floods has exceeded the levels of the 1998 Yangtze River floods.[27] The flooding has attracted attention from the state leaders of the Chinese Government and the public, who have brought aid to the victims of the flooding. The death toll from the floods continue to rise,[28] but floodwaters began to recede in some areas by the end of June.[29] Throughout the East Asian Monsoon season, the worst of the flooding shifted from Southwestern China to Central China by June and July and moved to Northern and Northeastern China by late July and August, leaving the southern provinces in a heat wave while the Northeastern and Northwestern provinces were continuously lashed by flooding rains.[30] Unusual climate patterns were linked to the persistent flooding, including an El Niño "Modoki", jet stream patterns[31][32] (also possibly linked to low solar activity), deforestation worsening the landslides and global warming.[33]

Guizhou Province

After experiencing severe drought, heavy rains triggered a landslide in Guizhou Province around 2:30 pm on June 28 that trapped 99 people in the village of Dazhai, Gangwu Township, Anshun. Ganwu received 257 mm of rain on June 27, a daily record for the township,[34] and the resulting landslide lasted two minutes and unleashed up to two million cubic metres of mud and rock, burying at least 37 buildings and homes in Dazhai.[35] Officials have stated there is little hope for survival of the buried victims, and that torrential rains are likely to continue.[5] The rains are hampering rescue efforts in the search for survivors from the 38 families buried by the landslide.[36] Chinese Vice Premier, Hui Liangyu urged the use of all resources to rescue any survivors.[37] The first body, one of a child, was found by rescue workers in the late afternoon of June 29.[38]

More than 1,100 rescue workers searched to find the remaining victims, including up to thirty children and infants, but eight of the original missing have turned up alive but were never buried.[39] By July 1, ten bodies had been found from the site of the landslide, and 89 were still missing and feared dead. At least 1,000 people have been evacuated from the village in the aftermath of the landslide.[35] A total of 42 bodies were found by June 29, and the remaining 57 missing were presumed dead.[14]

Jiangxi Province

Seventeen levees were breached in Jiangxi and 33,900 water conservancy projects were damaged. The direct economic loss is about 25.5 billion yuan. A 347 metre-wide breach of the Changkai dike on the Fuhe River, which burst its banks on June 21 and again on June 23, in Luozhen Township, Fuzhou City, forced 1.32 million people to evacuate.[40] The breach was repaired on June 27.[29] The local and provincial government have provided tents, quilts, blankets, clothing and water dispensers to the affected residents.[40] The flood crest of the Gan River passed the city of Nanchang on June 23.[41]

Residents of the city of Ganzhou have been protected from the flooding by drains built in the area during the Song Dynasty.[42]

Fujian Province

In Fujian, 400 victims of flooding have been safely transferred and properly rehoused. 76 people were killed and 79 were missing from landslides in the province by June 21.[43][44] The village of Baozhuang was completely cut off for six days before rescue workers brought the residents to safety.[45] More than ten consecutive days of rain hit Nanping, and factories were destroyed. 1.3 million people were affected, damages totalled 5.5 billion yuan, and 365,000 people have been relocated.[29] Flooding destroyed a bridge in the province on July 7, travel has been disrupted in 20 counties and the town of Taining is completely under water.[46]

Guangxi Autonomous Region

34.96 million people in Guangxi were affected, 37 deaths, 164.58 thousand hectares of crops affected, 16,395 residential housings collapsed. The direct economic loss is about 24.0543 million yuan, of which 10.2081 million were agricultural losses.

On June 2, 42 people were killed in a series of landslides that hit Cenxi, Rong County, Teng County, Donglan County and Fangchenggang City.[47][48]

Anhui Province

At least four million people have been affected in Anhui Province. 5,100 houses have collapsed, and a further 17,700 houses were damaged.[15]

Gansu Province

Main article: 2010 Gansu mudslide

Landslides in Zhugqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Gansu Province late in the night on August 7 buried Yueyuan Village, a village of 300 families, killing 1,435 people, and leaving 330 others missing.[49][50][51] The landslide buried half of Chengguan Township, the county seat, containing the village in water and destroyed an area five kilometres long, 500 metres wide and two metres thick, before water levels declined. About 45,000 people have been evacuated from the site, and 1,243 others[51] were rescued by army rescuers and local residents. However, excavators and large rescue vehicles could not reach the scene because of landslides and floodwaters. Premier Wen Jiabao arrived in the county at 4:35 pm on August 8. A power outage following the slide covered two-thirds of the county. The Bailong River was dammed by the landslide and started to overflow around 1 am on August 8, creating a landslide lake 3 kilometres long, 100 metres wide and 9 metres deep, holding 1.5 million m3 of water and submerging parts of the town, forcing 19,000 people downstream to evacuate. Demolition experts started working on the lake to release some of its water. The death toll was expected to rise, and more rain fell in the area afterwards, hampering relief efforts.[52][53][54] A rare national day of mourning was held in China to remember the victims of the Gansu mudslide on August 15.[55] At least 1,700 people made homeless by the landslides will be relocated and may need to spend the winter in tents.[56]

On August 13, 150 mm of torrential rain overnight and landslides hit Longnan City. As of August 17, it has caused 36 deaths and left 23 more missing. 122,835 others were forced to evacuate to emergency shelters and 295 people were injured by the mudslides and landslides.[57] In Tianshui, at least four people were killed.[58][59] Over 10,600 people were evacuated from Longnan.[18]

Sichuan Province

31.81 million people in Sichuan were affected, including Luzhou city's 95 townships. The direct economic loss of Luzhou is about 132 million yuan. The total direct economic loss is about 6.89 billion yuan, and 25,000 homes had been damaged in the flooding in August.[49]

A landslide in the village of Wangong, Hanyuan County, left 21 people missing after burying 58 homes on July 27 and forced 4,000 to evacuate.[60][61]

In Mianzhu, Deyang, heavy rains started on August 12 and landslides hit on August 13, killing five people and trapping 500 more in an area devastated by the recent drought and earthquake in 2008.[58][59] Sixteen people are dead after flooding and mudslides since August 13 in the province by August 20, and 66 are missing,[49] including at least 38 in Wenchuan County, forcing 10,000 people to evacuate.[62] Further landslides killed 18 people, injured 9 and left four missing in Wenchuan and Qingchuan County.[63] Landslides created a flood lake in Yingxing Township, and floodwaters four metres deep covered a 200-metre stretch of the only highway that links Wenchuan and Chengdu.[18]

In Guanghan, a train travelling from Xi'an to Kunming alonge the Baoji-Chengdu Railway derailed after floods washed away a section of a bridge on August 19. Two carriages of the train were washed into the river after dangling for a few minutes, but all passengers were safely rescued.[56]

Hunan Province

People in 14 cities in Hunan were affected, and 25,300 houses have collapsed so far. The province experienced its worst flooding since 2003.[19] In late June, floodwaters threatened the major city of Changsha, as water levels rose 2.5 metres above danger level, the highest in a decade, and the third-highest since 1953.[64]

Hubei Province

In Hubei, the Han River at Wuhan experienced its worst flooding in twenty years, as officials continued sandbagging efforts along the Han and Yangtze Rivers in the city and checked reservoirs.[65]

Three Gorges Dam

By July 20, the Yangtze River at the Three Gorges Dam experienced its highest river discharge in 130 years, and the highest since the dam was built. The dam's walls released 40,000 m3/s of water, while 30,000 m3/s of the river flow was held back in behind the dam, after water levels in the Reservoir had risen four meters overnight.[66] The reservoir's water levels peaked at 158.86 meters on the morning of July 23, whereas the "alarm level" of the reservoir was at 145 m. All ferry service in the Reservoir was halted as total flow rate exceeded 45,000 m3/s, although the crest of the flooding passed the dam by July 24.[26] A second peak in the river arrived at the dam on July 28,[60] when the peak flow from the dam was a record 56,000 m3/s.[65]

By early August, a thick layer of garbage covering 50,000 square metres (540,000 sq ft) and 60 centimetres (2.0 ft) deep, including tree branches, plastic bottles and domestic waste, swept into the reservoir by floods since July threatened to clog the shipping locks at the dam's wall. Workers are removing 3,000 tons of garbage daily, and the company responsible for the dam has paid for 150,000 to 200,000 cubic meters of garbage to be removed annually.[67][68]

Henan Province

In the city of Luoyang, Henan a bridge on the Yi River collapsed as onlookers crowded over it to watch the flooding, killing 51 people and leaving 15 missing.[67] Flooding also threatened the Longmen Grottoes, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the city.[60]

Guangdong Province

In Huilai County in Guangdong, 603.5 mm of rain fell in six hours, the fastest rainfall accumulation recorded there in about 50 years. Three deaths occurred in the province and two are missing, while 550,000 people were affected and 80,000 relocated.[29]

Jilin Province

85 people died in Jilin Province,[69] and 71 went missing due to floods. Jilin is one of the worst-hit regions in China due to rain and landslides since July 20, where flooding first started in June, with over 1,000,000 people evacuated in the province since July,[70] a record for the province,[71] and more than four million affected. 62,000 houses have been destroyed and 193,000 damaged, while direct economic losses reached 45 billion yuan in the province.[6][72]

On July 28, several thousand barrels were washed into the Songhua River by the floods from two chemical plants in Jilin. Barrels contained some toxic chemicals like trimethylsilyl chloride and hexamethyldisiloxane, about 170 kg of a poisonous substance in each. There were reports that some barrels exploded on contact with water.[73] The Dahe Dam in Changshan Township, Huadian City was breached on July 28, spilling 4 million m3 of water, destroying five villages downstream and leaving 40 people dead or missing.[71] By late afternoon on August 1, 6,387 barrels had been retrieved from the river. Officials stated that tests show the water in the river remains safe to drink. Three soldiers of the People's Liberation Army in Jilin drowned after working to remove the barrels and control the flooding.[74]

In the city of Baishan, near the border with North Korea, an island of garbage covering 15,000 m2 blocked water flow upstream from the Yunfeng Dam after it became clogged at a bridge. More flooding rains are expected in the coming days. Forty truckfulls of garbage have been collected, but the remaining garbage could fill 200 more. In Tonghua, 300,000 residents were left without tap water after the flooding damaged major water pipelines.[67] The water supply to the city was restored by August 4.[68] In addition, 15,702 residents from Liuhe County in Tonghua were evacuated to safter locations by August 5.[75] Unprecedented record levels of flooding hit the Yalu River, where shipping was suspended, and the Tumen River both bordering North Korea, while Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in the province suffered its worst flooding in one hundred years.[76]

In Linjiang City, also bordering North Korea on the Yalu, three townships were cut off by floods and mudslides, and 38,000 residents were relocated. Between July 31 and August 4, 68,000 residents were without drinking water due to flooding, until it was restored at 5 p.m. on August 4 but will take about three more days until the water is potable. Fire trucks were mobilized to provide drinking water from nearby springs.[75]

In Antu County, 70 homes in one village were destroyed by flooding, while in a mountain valley an area was submerged by floods 20 metres deep, forcing 570 families to evacuate. Damages from the floods in the county exceeded 800 million yuan, equal to about 5.7 times the county government's revenue in 2009.[74] In central Jilin, 204 mm of rain fell in 24 hours since August 4, while 121 mm fell in a few hours in Lishu in a few hours on August 5. Seven of the 25 medium and large reservoirs in Jilin City were forced to discharge, including Fengman Reservoir, the largest reservoir on the Songhua, at a rate of 4,500 m3/s. A 24-hour monitoring system has been set up on many reservoirs.[75]

Workers started repairing fifty-one damaged small reservoirs and fortifying riverbanks in the province after the Songhua River surged to levels twice as high as normal. Premier Wen Jiabao visited Yongji County during the first week of August.[77]

Other areas of Northern and Northeastern China were expected to receive more flooding rains, including Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Nei Mongol, Hebei and Shandong.[70]

Liaoning Province

Flooding on the Yalu River in Liaoning affected the city of Dandong in early August. Provincial authorities suspended shipping on the river[76] and more than 40,000 people were evacuated from the city,[78] and more rain is expected for the region. Heavy rains brought shipping to a halt by August 19,[79] and by August 21 the Yalu breached its banks. About 250,000 people in northeastern China were evacuated, including 94,000 in Dandong, where four people were killed and one is missing[63] in Kuandian Manchu Autonomous County.[80] The rain and flooding cut rail services and destroyed more than 200 houses.[81] At least 1,200 people were trapped by flood water. This affected Dandong on the Chinese side and Sinuiju on the North Korean side. Much of North Korea's trade with the world depends on Sinuiju, which is a vital lifeline for the country.[81] The river's flow hit a peak of 27,000 m3/s on August 21, flooding 44 townships and causing 158 embankment breaches. Rainfall up to 250 mm in 24 hours was expected on August 23.[82] Water levels at one station in Dandong rose 2.5 metres above the warning level, the second-highest measurement since 1934.[80]

Floods also covered roads and farms in Tieling City, affecting 20,000 people.[83]

In Huludao City, ten workers were stranded on an island created by flooding before being rescued, after National Road 102 was disrupted by floodwaters.[75]

Another series of floods left eight dead and one missing in Dandong by August 27.[79]

A developing tropical storm was forecast to bring more heavy rains to the Yalu River region by August 28.[84]

Heilongjiang Province

The State Flood Control and Drought Relief headquarters warned that flooding and landslides were expected to continue in the Songliao Basin (surrounding the Daqing Field) near the Songhua River in Heilongjiang Province.[77]

Yunnan Province

Malong County in Yunnan was hit by torrential rainfall lasting seven hours, completely filling a nearby reservoir, which submerged the county. Water over roads was as deep as 1.5 metres. The flooding killed one person and injured 165 others, and 55,000 people were affected in the county while 6,000 houses were destroyed.[29]

In Puladi Township, Gongshan, a landslide in June killed 11 people at a hydropower station construction site. On August 18, another landslide containing 600,000 m3 of mud and rock[63] cut off a town after roads and power lines were severed, killing 29 people and leaving 63 missing,[80] as well as injuring 25 people, 9 of them seriously. Some of the people missing were workers for an iron mine. The chances of survival for the missing people are said to be low as they have been trapped for over three days. The new landslide was about 300 metres wide, and buried 21 houses and 10 trucks. The slide also dammed parts of the Salween River near the border with Myanmar, causing water levels at its upper reaches to rise six metres.[85]

Qinghai Province

Torrential rains killed 25 people in Qinghai in July and left three more missing, affecting 41,000 people.[17][46]

The Wenquan Reservoir in the province, 130 kilometres upstream from Golmud, was overfilled with 230 million m3 of water, while it was only designed to hold 70 million m3, creating a water level 1.18 metres above the warning line.[24] Soldiers and rescue workers built drainage channels to pipe the water away from the reservoir, which would have flooded Golmud with water over four metres deep if its dam burst, and the channels are designed to release 400 m3 of water per second. More than 11,300 people have been evacuated from the city.[86]

Hainan Province

Starting from September 30 Hainan Province received the worst flooding in half a century. By October 7 the flood killed one, left three missing, and affected 1.65 million people in 16 cities and counties.[87]

Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

By August, heavy rains and snow melt in Xinjiang caused water levels in the region's 13 major rivers to rise above danger levels. In Aksu Prefecture, roads were cut off and bridges destroyed, while 1,000 people became trapped in the mountainous areas. On August 1, helicopters rescued 118 of the trapped people and delivered relief goods to the remaining residents.[74]

Floods triggered by torrential rains pounded Akto County on July 6 resulted in 6 deaths and 2 missing.[88] On the morning of Aug 17th, a 540 meters long bridge spanning the Yarkand River were destroyed by the mountain torrents, incuring a regional block of the National Highway 315.[89]

Chongqing Municipality

In July, 10 people were killed in Chongqing and two left missing by July 9. The direct economic damages from the floods in the city were 1.09 billion yuan, and 92 flights were delayed due to the floods.[16]

Relief efforts

The Chinese government has helped with flood relief efforts, rescue work and supplies following flooding and landslides in many regions. Donations from Chinese citizens have also contributed to relief supplies. On August 31, the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Civil Affairs allocated 2.01 billion yuan (294.85 million USD) to improve relief efforts.[90]

See also

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