Yangtze Experiencing Serious Flooding as Water Exceeds Warning Levels at 5 Major Monitoring Stations

Yangtze Experiencing Serious Flooding as Water Exceeds Warning Levels at 5 Major Monitoring Stations
Map of the Yangtze River Basin. Cncs/CC BY-SA
Winnie Han
Updated:
Floodwaters exceeded warning levels on May 22 across five major monitoring stations of the Yangtze River that runs from China’s west to east due to heavy rainfall in the past few days, according to state media Xinhua News Agency.

The monitoring stations are mainly located in the middle and lower Xiang River section near Dongting Lake, Hunan Province, and in the Xin River section near Poyang Lake, Jiangxi Province.