China extends compensation for flooding communities

China has expanded economic safeguards for its population -affected sections affected by flood control systems in times of extreme rainfall, including promises of immediate compensation by the central government and animal loss payments.

In China, flood diversion in areas by the rivers is an important step in managing downstream flood.

As extreme rainfall increases at frequency, China is increasingly using such areas, some of which have been used to date and have been supplemented by farms, arable land and even residential buildings, causing social tensions.

According to the revised rules on compensation related to flood diversion released late Friday, the central government will now bring 70% of all compensation funds, while local governments are responsible for the rest.

Previously, the reason had to be decided on the basis of the real financial losses and the financial situation of the local governments.

Animals and poultry that cannot be transported in time prior to the arrival of the abducted floods will also be included in the compensation scheme for the first time.

Previously, only the loss of working animals could be claimed for compensation.

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In the summer of 2023, nearly 1 million people in Hebei, a province in the backyard of Beijing, were transferred after a record forced by authorities that were forced to divert water from swollen rivers to some residential areas for storage, causing anger over the houses.

China currently has 98 defined flood diversion areas covering large river basins, including the Yangtze River basin, which host one -third of the country’s population. Eight flood floods were used during the floods of 2023 Hebei.

Since the start of the East Asia Mogs in early June, rainfall in the middle and lower areas of Yangtze were up to twice as much as the usual, Chinese Meterological Administration officials told reporters on Friday.

In other parts of China, daily rainfall measured by 30 meteorological stations in provinces such as Hubei and Guizhou broke the files for June, they said.

Guizhou was the focus of trying to relieve China’s floods this week, with one of his cities flooding on a scale that meteorologists said they could only happen at 50 years and at a speed that shocked 300,000 residents.

This prompted Beijing to make promises on Thursday to move vulnerable populations and industries to low flood areas and to distribute more flood diversion.