China's Ministry of Water Resources reported on Monday that 34 rivers across the country remain above warning levels as of 09:00, prompting authorities to maintain a yellow alert for flood.
Compared with Sunday, five more rivers were added onto the ministry's list for flood monitoring, as the flood season continues to pose widespread challenges across the country.
The affected waterways are located in several provincial-level regions, including the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in the south, Yunnan Province in the southwest and Zhejiang Province in the east, with water levels exceeding the warning thresholds by up to 7.01 meters in the most extreme cases.
According to the ministry's forecast, from Monday to Wednesday, heavy rainfall is expected to trigger a numbered flood on Guangxi's Yujiang River, a classification used for significant flood events requiring formal tracking and response.
Additional risks loom in the country's northeastern and eastern regions, with heightened cautions being maintained for the Heilongjiang River and the Wusuli River, both major waterways in northeast China, and the Taihu Lake, a major freshwater lake located in the Yangtze River Delta plain in east China.
An orange alert was issued for flash flood for the eastern areas of Fujian Province in east China, with a high probability of sudden flooding over the 24 hours through 08:00 on Tuesday.
China has a four-tier color-coded warning system for flood, with red representing the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
34 rivers remain above warning levels as China maintains flood alert
