{"id":16130,"date":"2025-08-08T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16130"},"modified":"2025-08-08T18:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T18:04:07","slug":"at-least-10-dead-33-missing-after-flash-floods-in-chinas-gansu-province","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=16130","title":{"rendered":"At least 10 dead, 33 missing after flash floods in China\u2019s Gansu\u00a0province"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ten people are dead and 33 missing after flash floods and mudslides in northwest China’s Gansu province, state media reported Friday, the latest in a series of lethal weather events to hit the country.<\/p>\n

Natural disasters are common across China, particularly in the summer, when some regions experience heavy rain while others bake in searing heat.<\/p>\n

Chinese President Xi Jinping ordered “utmost effort” in rescuing the missing people on Friday, state broadcaster CCTV said.<\/p>\n

Due to the “frequent occurrence of extreme weather”, Xi ordered all regions to “resolutely overcome complacency” and strengthen efforts to identify risks, the broadcaster added.<\/p>\n

Read More: NDMA flags looming flood threat<\/p>\n

From August 7, “continuous heavy rain” in Gansu triggered flash floods, with the death toll on Friday afternoon standing at 10, CCTV said.<\/p>\n

Local authorities had issued the highest-level emergency warning for flash floods overnight.<\/p>\n

A video shared by the Communist Party-backed People’s Daily showed more than a dozen rescuers clinging to a rope as they pushed through torrents of mud, while photos posted by Gansu’s government showed roads covered in silt and large stones.<\/p>\n

Heavy rains trapped 4,000 people living in the mountainous Xinglong area and pushed garbage into roads, CCTV reported earlier Friday.<\/p>\n

Three people were missing after a mudslide in Maliantan village, it said.<\/p>\n

Footage shared by Chinese fire authorities on Weibo showed rescuers in Maliantan guiding people through rushing grey water.<\/p>\n

Beijing’s top economic planner said it was allocating 100 million yuan ($14 million) towards disaster relief in Gansu.<\/p>\n

Local weather authorities at midday on Friday predicted more rain in some areas, including near the Yellow River — China’s second-biggest waterway.<\/p>\n

The country’s south has also experienced torrential downpours this week.<\/p>\n

Also Read: Chinese expertise to fuel dam development<\/p>\n

CCTV reported Friday that all seven people missing after a landslide in Guangdong province had been killed.<\/p>\n

Ten of thousands of people were evacuated across Guangdong this week, with heavy rains flooding residential neighbourhoods and shops.<\/p>\n

The government has also allocated 100 million yuan toward recovery efforts there, the National Development and Reform Commission said.<\/p>\n

Last month, heavy rains in northern Beijing killed 44 people, with the capital’s rural suburbs hit the hardest.<\/p>\n

A landslide in a village in Hebei province, which encircles Beijing, killed another eight people.<\/p>\n

Scientists warn the intensity and frequency of global extreme weather events will increase as the planet continues to heat up because of fossil fuel emissions.<\/p>\n

China is the world’s biggest emitter, but it is also a global renewable energy powerhouse that aims to make its massive economy carbon-neutral by 2060.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ten people are dead and 33 missing after flash floods and mudslides in northwest China’s Gansu province, state media reported Friday, the latest in a series of lethal weather events to hit the country. Natural disasters are common across China, particularly in the summer, when some regions experience heavy rain while others bake in searing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}