Rescue and clean up efforts after floods hit China
STORY: Video from Chinese state-run media showed buildings submerged in water while rescuers in bulldozers cleared debris in streets, after floods swamped cities in southern China's densely populated Pearl River Delta.
The province, once dubbed the "factory floor of the world”, is prone to summer floods. Its defenses against disruptive floods were severely tested in June 2022 when Guangdong was pounded by the heaviest downpours in six decades.
Since Thursday (April 18), Guangdong has been battered by unusually heavy, sustained and widespread rainfall, with powerful storms ushering in an earlier-than-normal start to the province's annual flooding season in May and June. Rains are expected to affect Guangdong for the rest of April.
