Affected by this year’s strongest typhoon to make landfall in China, Typhoon "Bavi," the authorities have raised the flood emergency response level to Level-3 for Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Anhui, and Jiangxi.
According to Xinhua News Agency, in accordance with the "National Flood Control and Drought Relief Emergency Plan" and relevant regulations, China’s National Flood Control Headquarters decided on Saturday night (July 11) at 8:00 p.m. to raise the national flood control emergency response from Level-4 to Level-3 for Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Anhui, and Jiangxi, to initiate Level-4 flood emergency response for Heilongjiang, and to dispatch a National Flood Control Office working group to Beijing to assist and guide flood control work.
According to meteorological forecasts, affected by Typhoon "Bavi" (No. 9 of this year) and the moisture it brings, the next three days will see heavy to torrential rains—and in some places, extremely heavy rains—in Beijing, Tianjin, Anhui, Jiangxi, Liaoning, and Heilongjiang, with a high risk of short-duration heavy rainfall, mountain floods, geological disasters, flooding in medium- and small-sized rivers, as well as urban waterlogging in some areas.
Typhoon "Bavi" made landfall at Kanmen, Yuhuan, Taizhou, Zhejiang, at 11:20 p.m. on Saturday evening, and landed again at Qingjiang Town, Yueqing City, Zhejiang, along the coast shortly before midnight on Sunday (12th). Over two million residents in Zhejiang have been relocated.
Due to the impact of "Bavi" and long-distance moisture transport, on Saturday, the China Meteorological Administration issued its first red alert for rainstorms in two years, as well as red alerts for mountain flood and geological disaster meteorological risks. From Saturday night until 8:00 p.m. Sunday, parts of more than ten provinces, including Zhejiang, Heilongjiang, and Yunnan—spanning both the north and south of China—are expected to experience heavy to torrential rains, with locally extremely heavy rainfall.