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China:Flood:1999/07

Duration1999/07 The last ten days in June 1999 it has been raining heavily in the areas along the Yangtze River. And, floods has occured. The floods affected the provinces of Anhui, Zhejiang, Hubei, Jiangxi and Hunan.Flooding has killed at least 291 people and threatened the lives of 60 million local people.
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International Federation of Red Cross Report 1999/08/04
60 million people are affected. It has left 240 people dead and over 24,000 injured. In addition, over 1.8 million people have had to be evacuated to safer areas.
An estimated 482,000 rooms have collapsed.
The combined effect of food, sanitation materials and water purification tablets had a major impact on reducing morbidity and mortality during previous floods.
Agence France-Presse (AFP) 1999/07/15
In nearby Qinghai province, 27 people died and 100,000 were made homeless during flooding in June.
Some 3.9 million dollars in direct economic losses were incurred in just one day, while 13,000 head of livestock and poultry perished.




Summer floods kill 240:DPA 1999/07/14
Some 1.8 million people had been evacuated and more than 3,000 people were reported injured after structures collapsed.
The deluge had affected 3.5 million hectares of cultivated land and destroyed 660,000 hectares of crops.


Floods kill 31 people in Southwest China province:Xinhua (1999/07/26)
Foods and landslides in neighboring Sichuan Province have killed 26 people since July and have affected the lives of 1.79 million others.
The heavy rains that have hit Yunnan Province have affected some 26,700 ha. of farmland and disrupted water and electricity supplies and telecommunications in some counties.


Xinhua (1999/07/16)Flood ravages central China province
The floods affected 10 million people.
The floods toppled over 70,000 residential houses, destroyed over 72,000 ha of farmland, and caused direct economic losses totaling 3.1 billion yuan.


IFRC (1999/07/13) China Floods Information Bulletin No. 1
The torrential rainfall has affected some 59.4 million people and killed 240 people. A further 3,055 are reported to have been injured.
In addition, 1.84 million people have had to be evacuated to safer areas.

An estimated 482,000 rooms have collapsed and 1.67 million have been severely damaged.
In terms of agricultural losses, the flooding has affected some 3.5 million hectares of cultivated land. Of this, a total 660,000 hectares of crops have been completely lost.



Agence France-Presse (1999/07/12) Central China floods inflict multi-million dollar damage in month
A total of 240 people had died in flooding by last week.
Floods inundated 1.13 million hectares of farmland, causing a grain output loss of 880,000 tonnes, while more than 2,000 companies were forced to halt or limit production.
The inundation damaged nearly 100,000 houses and toppled 34,000, adding that 5,200 head of livestock had perished.
Agence France-Presse (1999/07/09) East recovers from torrential rains as flood peaks in central China


Flooded fields spread lake-like into the distance with only the tops of telephone poles and half-merged homes betraying the disaster.


China - Floods OCHA Situation Report No. 1 (1999/07/07)
The floods affected 59.396 million people and killed 240 persons. 1.84 million people have been evacuated.
482,000 housing units collapsed and 1.67 million have been severely damaged. In total, 35 million hectares of cultivated land have been affected and 660,000 thousand hectares of crops were lost. The direct economic losses are estimated at approximately USD 2.22 billion.


Agence France-Presse (1999/07/06) Yangtze floods kill 240, destroy 480,000 homes
A total of 480,000 homes had been washed away, while another 1.67 million had sustained heavy damage.
Some 1.84 million people have been evacuated from affected areas

660,000 hectares (1.6 million acres) of crops were destroyed.


Agence France-Presse (1999/06/30) At least two dead, 100,000 trapped by floods in central China


More than 1,800 buildings collapsed in Xianning city in Hubei province as floods hit after a week-long deluge, causing losses of 48.4 million US dollars.
Landslides hit the Xianning stretch of the railway linking Beijing.



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Related Links
Report/Articles
  • International Federation of Red Cross Report 1999/8/4
    The Red Cross society of China seeks to provide immediate assistance in the form of safe water for one million people, for a 30-day period, a 30-day complementary food ration for 250,000 people and basic sanitation supplies for sanitation teams covering the needs of one million people.
  • Relief Web

  • OCHA Situation Report No. 2 1999/07/27

  • Agence France-Presse (AFP) 1999/07/27
    Some 770,000 people in Ziyang district in the central Chinese province of Hunan have been evacuated after a secondary dyke collapsed following heavy rains.
  • Xinhua 1999/07/27
    Water levels at the Jiujiang section of the Yangtze River and at Poyang Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province has been dropping in the last two days.
  • Xinhua (1999/07/26)
    The heavy rains that have hit China's Yunnan Province have caused floods that have killed 31 people and affected more than 400,000 people in the northeastern part.
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1999/07/26)
    Death toll in Yangtze flooding in southwest China rises to 300.
  • CNN 1999/07/24
    Flood crests burst a dike along the Yangtze River in central China, forcing the evacuation of 120,000 people from low-lying areas.
  • Agence France-Presse (AFP) 1999/07/23
    Some 350,000 people living in the vicinity of "dangerous dykes" have been evacuated to safety as the Yangtze river's third flood peak of the year surged towards an industrial metropolis in central China.
  • Xinhua 1999/07/23
    This year's severe flood peak on the Yangtze River passed Yueyang City, in central China's Hunan Province, without mishap.
  • IFRC 1999/07/22

  • Xinhua 1999/07/21(No.2)
    Flooding caused by heavy rainfall at the sources of the Yangtze and Lancang rivers this summer has claimed the lives of 4 people and damaged 1,500 houses and seven bridges in the Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Qinghai Province.
  • Reuters 1999/07/21
    The Chinese central provinces of Hubei, Anhui and Hunan have declared flood alerts along the Yangtze after the country's longest river rose above danger levels.
  • Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) 1999/07/21
    More than 47-thousand people have been evacuated from central China's Hubei province.
  • Xinhua 1999/07/21
    Hubei Province is calling for all-out efforts in fighting the current floods, although the major part of the flood waters has already passed without mishap through the most dangerous section of the Yangtze here.
  • Xinhua 1999/07/20(No.2)
    The third flood peak of the Yangtze River passed Yichang, a major city in central China's Hubei Province.
  • Xinhua 1999/07/20
    20, 000 residents of the Paizhouwan Flood Diversion Zone in central China's Hubei Province, had been evacuated to safety, in preparation for a possible diversion of flood waters.