Two rural houses collapsed and four others were severely damaged after a landslide cascaded down from a rain-soaked mountain on Tuesday in Pingliu Village, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
The disaster occurred at around 08:30 and was captured on video by local villagers. The footage showed two multi-story buildings at the foot of the mountain crashing down as muddy floodwaters surged downstream.
Fortunately, local officials had spotted cracks on the mountainside earlier and swiftly organized an evacuation. About 20 minutes before the landslide hit, they successfully relocated 21 people from seven households in the danger zone. As a result, no casualties were reported.
The evacuees have since been properly sheltered, and post-disaster relief efforts are progressing smoothly.
Pingliu Village, located in Longlin County, experienced torrential rainstorms between Monday and Tuesday, which triggered the landslide and flooding.
Residents evacuated as rain-triggered landslide topples homes in Guangxi
China's development has never been a "threat" to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said at a regular press conference in Beijing on Friday.
Some Western media and think tanks are peddling so-called "China Shock 2.0," saying that "China is achieving fast development in high-tech sectors such as renewable energy and AI and relies on foreign markets to absorb its overcapacity, thus reducing the market share of developed countries and sending more serious shock waves to the global economy compared with the era of traditional manufacture industry," while there are foreign commentators saying that the "China Shock 2.0" argument ignores the genuine innovation occurring within the Chinese industrial ecosystem and that Chinese export is the exact booster of the global economy that is needed in the turbulent period and more indispensable than ever.
Commenting on that, Lin said: "From the world's factory to the world's market and innovation powerhouse, China's development is achieved through strong performance driven by innovation and brings tangible cooperation opportunities and space to the world. High-quality Chinese products represented by the 'old three' of textiles, furniture and home appliances have stabilized the global industrial and supply chain, lowered the living cost of global consumers and eased the inflationary pressure worldwide. China's green production capacity represented by the 'new three' of electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels has bridged the gap between supply and demand in global green development and bolstered the global energy transition and low-carbon development. Moreover, China's high-tech products represented by the 'new new three' of robots, AI and innovative drugs have broken high-tech barriers and monopoly and enabled people in more countries to access affordable new technologies," said the spokesman.
"Openness and cooperation bring about progress and win-win result. China's development has never been a 'threat' to anyone but the source of growth advancing common development of all countries. What really creates 'shocks' to the world has never been the innovation of Chinese companies and efficiency of Chinese industrial capacity, but protectionist moves of setting up barriers, decoupling and severing industrial and supply chains. China will stay committed to high-standard opening up, defend the multilateral trading system and provide more certainty and new impetus to the world economy with its own steady development," said Lin.
China's development never a threat: FM spokesman
