Floods hit China's grain belt as storms following Doksuri head northeast

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BEIJING: Rain pelted swathes of China's biggest grain-producing province on Friday (Aug 4), submerging farms and worsening floods that have already swamped cities around the country as rescue workers scramble to contain the havoc caused by Typhoon Doksuri. Northeastern Heilongjiang, known as China's 'great

A widely shared video on social media showed a goat stranded on top of a rooftop and a pig trying to swim against the flood torrents.

Further south, in the corn-growing region of Jilin, authorities have set up camps for the 12,550 people evacuated from Shulan city, where as much as 484.7mm of rain has fallen over the past three days, state media reported.The widespread flooding across China has damaged agricultural land and industrial areas, triggering anxious investors to seek more information from companies listed on local stock exchanges.

 

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