The first typhoon of 2016, a monster named Nepartak, made its second landfall in Fujian on Saturday, with more - and stronger - typhoons expected to affect the country's coastal regions due to the La Nina phenomenon, the national meteorological authority said.
Dike patrolman Shao Wentao, 34, has been bowed down with anxiety in recent days. Looking across the Yangtze River at Wuhan, Hubei province, the mud flats he had inspected dozens of times were completely submerged by turbid water.
Chen Min, director of the Office of the Yangtze River Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters, talks about the flood control situation in the Yangtze River Basin:
In June last year, I took a ride on a century-old meter-gauge railway in Kenya that I thought was the worst travel experience ever. The train was running eight hours behind schedule. Waking from a sleep of four hours, I found it had moved only about 16 kilometers.
Since June 30, floods, hail and landslides have killed more than 160 people in China, mainly along the Yangtze River and its tributaries, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The list of calamities includes the collapse of 73,000 houses and the forced evacuation of 1.99 million residents. More than 1 million people are in urgent need of basic living assistance. The country has mobilized the People's Liberation Army, armed police, firefighters, officials and the public in the fight against flooding. They have been rescuing and evacuating stranded people, reinforcing dikes and dams, transporting relief supplies and dredging rivers in more than 10 provinces, including Anhui, Fujian, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi and Zhejiang.
Some elements use the excuse of being good to others to show their true colors. This is especially true for the United States.
On July 12, the tribunal in the South China Sea arbitration between the Republic of the Philippines and the People's Republic of China will issue its final award. China has made it clear from the outset that it will neither participate in nor accept the outcome of the arbitral proceedings because the subject matter of the arbitration is, in essence, "the extent of China's territorial sovereignty in the South China Sea" and, in particular, its "sovereignty over the Nansha (Spratly) Islands as a whole". The jurisdiction of the tribunal is, however, limited to disputes concerning the interpretation or application of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and territorial sovereignty disputes are not governed by the convention.
It looks like a prefect trap for Beijing:
Researchers say residents of villages in the provinces of Zhejiang and Jiangxi were probably infected with anthrax by the Japanese army during WWII. Zhao Xu reports.
One woman has spent decades battling to win compensation for victims of Unit 731, the Japanese army's notorious germ warfare division. Zhao Xu reports.
Editor's note: This is the last in a series of articles in which China Daily has marked the 95th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China by examining its structure, history and influence.
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