Juliet Song is an international correspondent exclusively covering China news for NTD. She primarily contributes to NTD's "China in Focus," covering U.S.-China relations, the Chinese regime's human rights abuses, and domestic unrest inside China.
In recent weeks, torrential rains have resulted in massive flooding throughout central, southern and eastern China. Millions of people in multiple provinces have been affected, and hundreds are dead. The middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have swelled to overrun dikes, roads, farms, and electrical infrastructure.
Adding to this is the typhoon Nepartak, which has dropped 250 millimeters of rain (about 10 inches) on Taiwan and in the province of Fujian, where 47,000 people living on coastal areas have been evacuated.
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The villagers’ homes were flooded after Jushui River broke the dyke and flooded XuJiaDun village in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Saturday July 03, 2016.(Wang He/Getty Images)
This picture taken on July 2, 2016 shows people trying to remove a car from a flooded parking garage in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken on May 8, 2016 shows cars partially submerged by floodwaters after strong rains hit Yangshuo county, south China’s Guangxi province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken on July 7, 2016 shows a man making his way through a flooded street in Wuhan, in central China’s Hubei province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
A pig swims in the flood after Jushui River broke the dyke and flooded DongChun village in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Saturday July 03, 2016.Floods spawned by torrential rain in China’s southern and eastern regions have left at least 186 people dead and another 45 missing. (Wang He/Getty Images)
A bus was driving in the flooded at Wuhan, Hubei province, China.6 July 2016. (Wang He/Getty Images)
This photo taken on June 21, 2016 shows a resident making his way through a flooded area in a village in Poyang county, in southeast China’s Jiangxi province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This picture taken on July 6, 2016 shows the flooded Xinhua Road Sports Centre Stadium in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
Rescuers evacuate villagers after Jushui River broke the dyke and flooded XunJiaDun village in Wuhan in central China’s Hubei province Saturday July 03, 2016.(Wang He/Getty Images)
This picture taken on July 2, 2016 shows people crossing a flooded street in Wuhan, in China’s central Hubei province. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This photo taken on July 7, 2016 shows an overhead view of trees and houses submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.Flooding is common during the summer monsoon season in southern China, but rainfall has been particularly heavy this year and many areas have been lashed by torrential rains this week. / AFP / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
TOPSHOT – This photo taken on July 7, 2016 shows an overview of trees and houses submerged by floodwater in a village in Xuancheng, in east China’s Anhui province.Flooding is common during the summer monsoon season in southern China, but rainfall has been particularly heavy this year and many areas have been lashed by torrential rains this week. / AFP / STR / China OUT (Photo credit should read STR/AFP/Getty Images)
This overhead view shows trees and houses submerged by floodwaters after the heavy rainfall hit a dam along the Xiangyang River in Xinji Village in Yangzhou in east China’s Jiangsu province on July 6, 2016. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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