In the past two days, a process of heavy rainfall has occurred in some areas of our country, which has triggered super-alarm floods in many rivers.

  Since the flood season began on April 1 this year, the country's precipitation has generally presented a distribution of "more in the north and less in the south", and 22 heavy precipitation processes have occurred.

Extraordinary floods occurred in the upper reaches of Heilongjiang, two numbered floods occurred in the Nenjiang River in the Songhua River Basin, and one numbered flood occurred in the Luan River in the Haihe River Basin. 282 rivers in 24 provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities including Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Beijing, Tianjin, and Sichuan experienced floods above the alarm level. Forty-one rivers exceeded the guarantee, and 9 rivers exceeded the historical flood.

Wang Jinxing

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chief hydrology forecaster of the Ministry of Water Resources: Since the

flood season, the location of the main rain belt in China has been norther than the same period in normal years, and parts of Northeast China have been significantly higher than usual. Among them, the Songliao River Basin accumulated rainfall in June, Beijing and Tianjin on July 1 The cumulative surface rainfall since 1961 is the highest since 1961.

The floods in Northeast China occurred early and lasted for a long time.

The numbered flood occurred in the Nenjiang River on June 21, which was the earliest since 2004 in the Songliao River Basin. There were 5 over-alarm floods in the upper main stream of Heilongjiang, and the Sandaoka River section has over-alarmed for 31 days; July 13th, the Luanhe River in the Haihe River Basin The numbered flood and the super-alarm flood in the Baihe, a tributary of the Chaobai River, are the earliest since 1998.

  In addition, since the flood season this year, rivers in many places have experienced concentrated floods, with large flood levels.

The protruding floods of small and medium-sized rivers and the rapid increase in water levels are also the main features of the national rain regime this year.

(CCTV reporter Zhou Wei Chen Bo Zhang Jing)