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A boy walks through a flooded street during a downpour in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, July 5, 2003.
Nanjing was the heaviest rainfall in the city in 20 years,Saturday, July 5.
Passengers abandon a bus because of its flameout during a downpour in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Saturday, July 5, 2003.
Police build up a sandbag wall.
Houses by the Huangpu River are in danger.
A pumping station inside Shanghai's anti-flood wall that had withstood high waters on the Huangpu River finally subsides under pressure, July 3, 2003, following the break of a dyke below the wall.
Villagers in the Mengwa Flood Diversion Area in Funan, East China's Anhui Province, watch the floodwather roaring into 12,000 hectares of farmland.
Diverted flood water roars at the Wangjiaba section of the Huaihe River after the sluice gates were opened early Thursday morning.
A villager looks at his village submerged beneath floodwaters on July 6, 2003.
Villagers in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province, about 1 kilometre from Tangduo Lake, work on flood defences.
Villagers pile up sand bags in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province on July 6, 2003.
Villagers pile up sand bags in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province on July 6, 2003.
Factories and residential buildings submerged in floodwater in Jiangsu.
More than 250 oil wells around Hongze Lake are submerged in floodwater in east China's Jiangsu Province.
People's Liberation Army soldiers evacuate residents in East China's Jiangsu Province, due to flooding from the Huaihe River.
Flood in Li River, Hunan Province, is seen in this July 8 photo.
Flood in Li River, Hunan Province, is seen in this July 8 photo.
The Zhangjiajie municipal government building is partly submerged after a rainstorm-caused spate burst Tuesday. Local traffic has been halted and hundreds of residents were evacuated.
The sluice gate at Tuanjie Lake in Xuyi is submerged in floodwater.
Tired soldiers take a rest.
A family from Huoqiu County in east China's Anhui Province is evacuated by boat.
Zhu Zhiping, an evacuated villager from a flooded area, takes care of her two grandchildren at her temporary home.
A farmer guides a flock of sheep from flooded areas to a safe place in Xuyi, East China's Jiangsu Province.
Rescuers clear the site of a landslide on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in Linzhi, Tibet.
A section of the railway linking Baoji in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Chengdu, the capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, was blocked by a mudslide caused by heavy rain.
A huge oil-pumping machine is partly submerged in flood in Shengjiaba, Jiangsu Oil Field on July 11.
Workers at Jiangsu Oil Field inspect a waterlogged overland oil well on July 11, 2003.
Oil transportation facilities are critically damaged by the flood in Jiangsu Oil Field.
Workers prepare to make sandbags to protect the main road from river flooding near a flag of Chinese Communist Party, July 12, 2003 in Fengyang, Anhui Province.
Chinese farmer receives food aid from the Red Cross after his home was flooded, in Chuhe, which lies between China's Anhui and Jiangsu province.
Residents move their personal belongs after a mudslide crashed through the remote mountain village of Badi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
Residents move their personal belongs after a mudslide crashed through the remote mountain village of Badi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
A bicycle wheel was distorted by the mighty force of the mudslide.
Chinese farmer receives food aid from the Red Cross after his home was flooded, in Chuhe, which lies between China's Anhui and Jiangsu province.
Merciless flood.
Searching for the missing.
A local official directs the residents to evacuate.
Difficult cycling
Searching for the missing.
a besieged dog
Two PLA soldiers carry an old man to safety in Shouxian, East China's Anhui Province on July 13, 2003.
Closer to safety.
After more than 18 hours of repair work, the Baoji-Chendu railway resumed normal operations July 14.
The tropical storm damages or uproots many trees in the island province of Hainan.
All maritime transportation at the Qiongzhou Straits was suspended due to the bad weather.
Typhoon Koni causes huge waves.
Typhoon Koni, China's first tropical storm of the year, hits South China's Hainan Province, triggering torrential rain and injuring several people, July 21, 2003.
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