Southern China: Continued heavy flooding/Xi is too scared to show up at the heavy flooding scene

on September 7th 2023 a month after the floods in Northeast China receded news of XI jinping's visit to a northern Village to inspect the disaster Rose to the top of the search lists in China meanwhile many provinces in southern China have been hit by severe rainstorms recently coupled with secretive water discharges from reservoirs the floods are still raging let's take a look at the devastation throughout the country thank you [Applause] thank you foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a video on September 11th showed that an ancient city saw a sudden downpour in the morning flood water rushed into the streets where breakfast vendors gathered the rain came suddenly and there was no time to react vendors were washed away together with their stuff it lasted for more than an hour some shopping malls were badly inundated turning into an ocean of water oh the water on the wall is terrible it's worse than a waterfall my goodness it's horrible look at this the biggest rainstorm in Asia in history look at the sofas in the shopping mall they're being washed away by the water my goodness okay wow look at what's happening here this is the water coming in from the first floor the whole mall is flooded it's really scary [Music] the manhole is flooded with water and all the dirty stuff is flushed out of the sewers my goodness it stinks foreign underground stores are being backed up by torrential rain like a waterfall get out get out because I flushed away so yeah heavy rain in Xi'an all the vehicles downstairs have been flooded in a short period of time as well as the electric cars and motorcycles for me to God um I'm near the Marine Museum both sides of the street are flooded with chorus and trolleys the street is like a river now many people aren't thinking about how to get home how to pick up their children but how to cross the river the damage is so serious foreign how hard it is for that person to cross the street it's a delivery person under the impact of the aftermath of the recent typhoon hikeway many areas in southern China have been experiencing heavy rainfall for three days with more than 100 mudslides about 1360 residents trapped in flood waters and at least seven people perished several City districts in yulin were severely flooded with buildings collapsing large amounts of debris hitting Bridges and many roads experiencing landslides and mudslides water almost reached the roofs of buildings in some areas some areas in bobai County sell water depths of more than two meters [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you foreign by some of the videos I saw this morning [Music] they said in the comments that they had seen the volcano eruption in the U.S and the flooding in Syria but not any measure of the flooding in guangxi being severe because they hadn't received the feeds many people found out about the flood in their hometowns from the comments section including me my homie is in poor by County it isn't as bad I even saw in our Circle friends that many people were using pots and Bows to catch fish it seemed fun and I didn't even realize how horrible the situation was I believe the reality is even more brutal than the video which said that people vanished in the flood a 70 year old bawled his eyes out when he saw his home collapsed and a child sat in a basement floated on the water crying hopelessly I grabbing him bye-bye and I'm a Boy by native but I feel powerless I also believe that many of our fellow citizens away from town and our fellow towns people feel helpless we can only do something for our hometowns through the internet or contribute somewhat without meager ability I hope that the government the media and guangxi's netizen can step in to help these people help them get over the difficulties as soon as possible the disaster is ruthless but people are merciful may all prayers be heard by God and may our fellow folks in your hometown stay strong something bizarre happened on September 11th after the flash floods online video showed that more than 70 crocodiles from a crocodile farm escaped on mass according to the Beijing news The Mao Ming emergency response Bureau used sonar equipment to search for the fleeing crocodiles and captured several of them the deep water has made it difficult to catch them the authorities have advised the surrounding residents not to go out and never go into the water in any case and call the police when they encounter the crocodiles my goodness crocodiles can escape from prison these days recently due to bad weather in Guangdong a typhoon triggered heavy rainfall and resulted in more than 70 crocodiles escaping from the farm according to the official statistics 69 big crocodiles and six small crocodiles have escaped from the farm that 75 crocodiles hanging around outside any animal in any country can proliferate into a disaster but not in China for example the lobster which is everyone's favorite food was introduced to China to eat the garbage in the rice paddies but in the end the Chinese people scooped it up and ate it all the 70 or so crocodiles that have escaped this time wouldn't be enough to provide a meal for the Cantonese people however we must pay attention to safety until the officials clean up all the crocodiles don't go out especially those who love fishing crocodiles aren't fish they can bite Hooks and you may not be able to beat them other than the crocodiles escaping on September 8th it was reported that koi a type of decorative fish that cost 20 000 RMB a piece in a hotel took advantage of the rainstorm and wandered onto the street it exploded in social media groups in Guangzhou many posted videos of the koi that escaped from the hotel urging the public to take good care of them when they catch these expensive koi the koi Escape incident sparked many comments among netizens they chimed in to say never in their lives did the fish think that they would be able to go to the land and visit a shopping mall in their lifetime even fish yearn for freedom it's not fish it's gold swimming in the water it's not just Guangdong that has been hit hard Yunnan province has also been hit by a rainstorm that hasn't been seen in a hundred years flooding many parts of the city of Dali and causing heavy losses to businesses [Music] thank you foreign to 11 30 now the water level outside doesn't go down the water level here won't go down either we can't block the water with our flaps because the base of the flaps is soaked and falling off we're doing the best we can with each other but there is no way to block the water take a look this is the current situation all of our equipment has been destroyed after more than a decade of hard work it hasn't been easy to survive the three-year epidemic now we're done we can't hold on anymore jojoba um most of the stores in the entire Development Area are like us they're out of luck and this is the life of the people we picked up a lot of drifting Goods we can't even open our operating room this is the door of the second room it has the door made of lead coupled with the pressure of the water there's no way to open it you can see that this room is soaked to such a state or the ventilators and and Aesthetics are in the water as well as the ultrasound machine soaked to such a state it's been more than six hours and the water level hasn't come down at all it's over everything is over foreign what's going on in Yunnan Province the previous month or two was a drought and then in the following two months floods came two or three times everyone have a look after two days of rain floods broke out once again look at the flash floods going down the hill like Fierce Tigers destroying the Riverbanks and destroying their crops wherever they go all the corn is submerged in the floods and the harvests are about to be destroyed isn't it a shame I don't know what happened to yunan who have the unan people offended that we must suffer this kind of disaster with damages everywhere the original 20 meter wide river has now swollen to almost 200 meters why would such a big disaster happen it has something to do with a century of deforestation and the pursuit of local GDP at all costs what a rare kind of flooding it is I don't know how these local peasants are going to make it through what are they going to do next year let's take a look at South China on the one hand the South has been devastated by torrential rains and on the other hand in the north the disaster has been over for more than a month now news that party later Xi Jinping visited the north instead of the South hit the Chinese web according to China's CCTV News on the morning of September 7th Xi Jinping visited a village that was hit hard by the floods he walked along the village streets and looked at the damaged buildings the repair and reconstruction situation on the street he even went into people's homes to comfort the villagers as seen from the footage the weather was clear the Sun was shining brightly and the traces of the flooding were hardly noticeable where she visited I am concerned about the places affected by the disaster in China when people encounter difficulties we still have to give full play to our socialist superiority that is to say if one is in trouble all parties will help with the full support from the government I hope that our relief and reconstruction work will be successful and smooth it's worth noting that just below the page of CCTV news coverage of XI jinping's inspection of Northeast China the weibo page shows videos and information about the torrential rains and floods in Shenzhen many netizens left comments mocking Xi Jinping for not visiting the South and the floods but going to the north where there were no floods she was said to have been putting on a show it's raining so heavily it's raining heavily in Guangzhou it's raining heavily in Foshan Hong Kong is also experiencing heavy rain some netizens mock the situation on overseas social media X Xi Jinping is in hey long Jiang to see the floods that have been receding for a while the water is in the far south but the man is in the far north it's such a joke there are also netizens teasing a month after the torrential rains hit the Northeast heilong Jiang is Breezy and sunny and no signs of flooding can be seen Xi Jinping only visited a village in Harbin at this time to console the flood victims he headed out on a clear day in addition from the pictures we can see that not many people were present during shi's visit and only a few officials were accompanying him among the so-called villagers many of them were wearing camouflage military uniforms making their identities suspicious relatively speaking the previous leaders of the CCP didn't act in this way we saw former party leader hujin Tao go to the waher river flood in 2007 the snow disaster in the south of China and the winchwan earthquake in 2008 as well as the earthquake in yushu Ching Hai in 2010 he even helped to carry sacks of relief supplies at the snow disaster site in guilin guangxi moreover former Premier Zhu Rong ji and win ji Bao also visited the front line of the disaster for example during the winch 1 earthquake when Jai Bao even shed tears while directing the disaster relief efforts which was widely reported by both Chinese and foreign media but such a situation has taken a dramatic turn in a decade into XI jinping's tenure as China's president recently there was a nearly two-week outbreak of exceptionally heavy rains and flooding in northern China and other parts of the country affecting more than 7 million people across the country but Xi Jinping has been slow to visit the disaster relief areas only recently after the floodwaters receded did he visit the disaster areas it was considered a show by the public some netizens noted the current Administration with disasters all over the place doesn't even pretend to provide disaster relief there is no harm if there is no comparison the current Administration is worse than the previous ones therefore both Chinese and English media say that because Xi Jinping has obtained lifelong power and he isn't under the pressure of votes he behaves differently from his predecessors in the face of flood disasters we believe otherwise we think she faces the same public pressure during the 2023 flooding in China she should have felt the pressure from all sides and went to Northeast China to make up for it the main reason why she wasn't present at the scene of the flood was because he was worried about his personal safety past records show that everywhere he goes he is always on high alert everyone in the neighborhood has to close their Windows the highways have to be shut down and many bodyguards and group actors are assigned to the scene this is the state of security during XI jinping's visit to Hong Kong in 2017. [Music] however if Xi Jinping were to appear in a flood-stricken area it would be very difficult to make this kind of detailed Arrangement there would have been a lot of unforeseen circumstances because of the disaster as we've shown in previous episodes she is wary of ancient Chinese prophecies that he might be assassinated there's also instability in the Chinese military right now that's why she is so concerned about his personal safety and is probably reluctant to visit the site of the flooding he has too many political considerations especially personal safety and Power [Music] thank you [Music]