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China floodwater diversions to populated areas unleash wave of online anger

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Netizens said residents weren't aware they lived in a flood storage area and that the rights of the minority had been sacrificed.

The vast Hai River basin covers an area the size of Poland that includes Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin. Over a span of one week from late July, the region with a population totalling 110 million experienced its most serious flooding in six decades, with Hebei, particularly Baoding prefecture, the worst hit.

On Aug. 1, Hebei's Communist Party Secretary Ni Yuefeng called Xiongan a top priority for the province's flood prevention work, according to local state media. Phone calls to the Hebei provincial government on Sunday seeking comment went unanswered. It did not immediately respond to an email. "This is also for the sake of protecting the overall situation. You have to sacrifice one part for the sake of the bigger whole."

 

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