10m phone alerts save lives of Chinese from floods10m phone alerts save lives of Chinese from floods | en.people.cn | mb.com.phWith five major typhoons in mainland China this year so far, the loss of 662 lives in floods, 332 missing victims and the additional loss of 400,000 houses to the disaster, China’s Ministry of Water Resources had a testy season and the worst in 18 years. To fix these problems, the country’s economy bled a princely RMB 311b. But with all these and other disasters, the ministry still had a great result to be proud about. Zhang said these measures assisted in no little way to mitigate losses that would have been incurred in the natural upheavals. The wild weather brought five major typhoons to the coastal provinces with 62 major damages to 91,000 embankments, 1500 reservoirs.

Source: Manila Bulletin September 27, 2016 05:37 UTC