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Looking at hundreds of soldiers using rocks to reinforce the banks of their island in the fast-rising Yangtze River gave a group of islanders pause.
Torrential rains and floods, the worst in a decade, have claimed the lives of 701 people and left 347 missing in China since the beginning of the year, according to government figures Wednesday.
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Chanthu, the third tropical storm of the season, is expected to make a landfall on coastal areas of southern China's Guangdong Province Thursday noon, according to meteorologists from the neighboring province of Hainan, which is on the route of the typhoon.
Disaster relief is under way to Guang'an, a city badly hit by floods in Southwest China's Sichuan province.
Rain-triggered floods left 273 people dead and 218 missing since rainstorms struck South China on July 1, latest figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs show; up from the 146 deaths reported on July 16.
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The State Council, China's Cabinet, Wednesday urged local governments to step up their efforts to combat floods as the country faces a critical time for flood control.
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