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Response level raised for Yangtze flooding

By YANG WANLI | CHINA DAILY | Updated: 2020-07-11 08:03

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A child eats at a relocation site for flood victims in Poyang county, Jiangxi province, on Thursday. The site at a local school was set up within 10 hours, providing 28 classrooms for more than 500 villagers. Volunteers also prepared supplies including water, food and bed items for the villagers. ZHOU MI/XINHUA

As of Thursday afternoon, 140 people were killed or reported missing in China due to the floods, which afflicted more than 30 million people around the country, the Ministry of Emergency Management revealed on Friday.

Together with other departments, the ministry has drafted emergency plans for disaster control and improved the alert system at all levels.

Detailed plans for transfer of affected people and allocation of related materials have also been made, according to the ministry.

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