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We will tell you about the situation in southern China where heavy rains have continued for more than 40 days. As rain damage continues to increase, cultural damage, including the collapse of bridges and castles built hundreds of years ago, was also reported to be significant.

This is correspondent Kim Ji-sung of Beijing.

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is a bridge and corridor for over 300 years in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province, China.

The corridor began to collapse in the midst of the heavy rain, and

[they collapsed, the bridge collapsed] and

disappeared quickly.

The 800-year-old bridge in Jiangxi Province, China's national important cultural property, and the bridge in Anhui Province, built during the Ming Dynasty, suddenly collapsed in the rapid rise.


Some of the old castles in Hubei Province have collapsed stone walls.


Chinese authorities say more than 40 days of heavy rain have damaged more than 130 cultural properties in the southern region.

[China TV report: According to the provisions of the National Cultural Heritage Bureau, about 130 cultural properties were flooded in 11 southern provinces until the 7th.]

141 people have died or disappeared so far due to the heavy rain . It is different from the Flood in 1998, when more than 4,000 people died.

Rainfall has already exceeded 98 years, but it is said that the world's largest Sansha Dam is capable of controlling the water level and has improved disaster prevention capabilities.

The People's Liberation Army has also been put into recovery for 7,000 people.

However, as the heavy rain frontline moved to the vicinity of Hubei, such as Wuhan, there is growing anxiety as to whether or not it will hit the Corona rain damage.

(Video coverage: Deokhyun Choi, Video editing: Yonghwa Jung)