Heavy downpours lash south China's Guangxi, flooding roads, triggering landslides, trapping residents

Heavy downpours have lashed several areas in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region over the past few days, flooding roads, triggering landslides and trapping residents there.

The mountainous Napo County in Baise City experienced multiple landslides triggered by heavy rainfall on Saturday morning which damaged roads and disrupted traffic. The local road maintenance center immediately organized repair work. As of 17:00, two sections of the damaged roads reopened to traffic with a limited traffic flow.

Sudden rainstorms caused water-logging on Saturday in the downtown area of Beihai City. As the national college entrance examination is underway, municipal workers responded immediately with drainage pumps to clear roads around the examination sites to facilitate students' travel and ensure that no one was stranded.

In Lingshan County of Qinzhou City, 13 people including seven children were trapped in a two-storey house surrounded by waist-deep floods following the torrential rain on Friday night. Upon receiving the call for help, rescuers rushed to the site to bring those trapped out of the flooded building successively with ropes, a ladder and life jackets. There were transferred to a safe place via rubber boats. All the trapped had been evacuated as of 2:00 on Saturday, with no causalities reported.

Heavy downpours lash south China's Guangxi, flooding roads, triggering landslides, trapping residents

A Chinese mainland spokeswoman on Wednesday slammed the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities in the Taiwan region for hollowing out local industries and harming people's interests.

Zhang Han, spokeswoman for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, made the remarks when asked to comment on the investment expansion in the United States announced by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), the world's leading contract chipmaker.

"The Democratic Progressive Party authorities' attempts to solicit U.S. support for Taiwan secession and kneel to the U.S. while selling out Taiwan are the root cause of the damage to Taiwan's economy and the gradual loss of its competitive edge. For their selfish political gains, the DPP authorities have sold out the interests of the industrial sector and hollowed out Taiwan's economic foundation, harming not only the future of the island's industry, but more importantly, the livelihoods of the vast number of compatriots in Taiwan," said Zhang.

Mainland spokeswoman slams Taiwan's DPP authorities for hollowing out local industries