China’s Third Peak of Flooding This Year Hits Yangtze River

The Three Gorges Dam, a gigantic hydropower project on the Yangtze River, is discharging flood water in Yichang, central China's Hubei Province on July 19, 2020. STR/AFP via Getty Images

The Chinese regime announced on July 26 that the third peak of this year’s flooding season has arrived in the upstream region of Yangtze River, while the second peak reached the midstream area.

Roughly 459 million people live in the Yangtze River drainage basin as of the end of 2017, with 51 percent of them living in rural areas, according to China’s Ministry of Water Resources (MWR).