Rain pelted swathes of China's biggest grain producing province, 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 northern granary", is the latest area to suffer the aftermath of Doksuri, which has killed at least 20 people, displaced thousands and flooded Beijing and several other cities since it made landfall in the south a week ago.
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 484.7 mm of rain have 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.said the factory of a unit in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, had been flooded.
, a producer of chemical products, said flooding at a factory in Chongqing had triggered an emergency suspension of production.
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