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China suffered 76.9 billion yuan ($10.1 billion) in economic
losses from natural disasters last month, with 88% of those
losses caused by heavy rains, floods or their effects, according
to the Ministry of Emergency Management.
It was the biggest amount of losses for the month of July since
2021, ministry data showed.
Natural disasters during the month affected almost 26.4 million
people across China, with 328 either dead or missing, the
ministry said.
During the month, 1.1 million people were relocated, 12,000
houses collapsed and 157,000 more were damaged. Some 2.42
million hectares of crop area were also affected.
Extreme rainfall poured over vast areas such as the Sichuan
Basin, Yellow River, Huai River and parts of the North China
Plain, breaking precipitation records at 33 weather stations in
Henan, Hunan and Shandong provinces.
Swollen major rivers that were slow to recede after bouts of
flooding also worsened the impact of the rains, the ministry
said.
In central Henan, one of the country's main commercial crop
production areas, more than 1.13 million hectares were affected
with some harvests lost from soaked fields.
In the south, Typhoon Gaemi had the most impact in Hunan.
Thunderstorms, winds and hail also damaged crops and greenhouses
in Inner Mongolia and Xinjiang.
($1 = 7.1747 Chinese yuan)
(Reporting by Liz Lee and Ryan Woo; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)
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