{"id":368002,"date":"2025-08-09T18:32:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=368002"},"modified":"2025-08-09T18:32:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T15:32:59","slug":"china-activates-level-iv-emergency-response-for-flood-control-in-5-regions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=368002","title":{"rendered":"China activates Level-IV emergency response for flood control in 5 regions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">BEIJING, SANA-The Ministry of Water Resources activated a Level IV flood-control emergency response on Saturday for five provincial-level regions, as heavy to torrential rains are predicted to sweep across vast parts of the country in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Xinhua quoted the Ministry as saying in a statement: From Aug. 9 to 11, intense rainfall is expected to batter Henan, Hubei, Chongqing, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Anhui, and Gansu, where the alert was already in place, with some areas facing extreme downpours\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The downpours may cause sharp water level rises in the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze and Huaihe Rivers, while some small and medium-sized rivers in high-risk areas could exceed warning levels, the Ministry added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Ministry has urged local authorities to step up real-time monitoring of rainfall and river conditions, issue timely public alerts, and enhance urban waterlogging-prevention measures and ensuring early evacuations of residents in dangerous areas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Nawal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, SANA-The Ministry of Water Resources activated a Level IV flood-control emergency response on Saturday for five provincial-level regions, as heavy to torrential rains are predicted to sweep across vast parts of the country in the coming days. Xinhua quoted the Ministry as saying in a statement: From Aug. 9 to 11, intense rainfall is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":368003,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6987],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arabic-international","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368002"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368002"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368004,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368002\/revisions\/368004"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}