Beijing: About 100,000 people have been evacuated from Central China Zhengzhou, because the rainfall record causes floods and economic disorders that are widespread to Henan Province, houses for the world’s largest production base for iPhone and large hubs for heavy food production and industrial production.
Pictures published by government media show most of the roads that are submerged in Zhengzhou, a city of 10 million, while the video posted on social media shows passengers trapped in the flood subway car with the surface of the water and residents who are drawn to a fast flooding , The Xinhua State News Agency reported that 12 deaths had been confirmed so far.
Delugs has brought equivalent to the average city rainfall value of more than eight months since Tuesday, and has interrupted operations at least one global company with manufacturing operations there.
Nissan Motor Co.
Ltd has a temporary stop production in Zhengzhou, according to a spokesman for a company.
SAIC Motor Corp., China’s largest car maker, said logistics around its factory in Zhengzhou had been influenced by flooding in the short term, but the plant was not yet damaged.
Meanwhie Honwan’s Hi Hai Precision Industry Co., which has a large iPhone production plant in Zhengzhou, said that it has activated an emergency response plan for flood control measures but that floods have no direct impact on facilities.
The Hon Hai factory accepts the components needed to assemble the iPhone from Chinese global and domestic suppliers before sending producers to become finished.
Floods hit right when the company prepares to increase the output ahead of the launch of the latest Apple Inc device towards the end of the year.
Floods in Henan can also affect Chinese food supply.
The province is the second largest food producer in the country, accounts for about a quarter of wheat harvests and is the main center of frozen food production.
Henan was also home from the largest pig processor in the world of WH Group Ltd, which acquired a giant production of US Meat Smithfield Food Inc.
In 2013.
While China has harvested its main wheat plants, heavy rains that affect the quality of areas including Henan.
It is expected to increase wheat imports by 40% this year to the highest level since the mid-1990s, according to the BRIC AGRICULTURE Group, a Beijing-based consulting company.
China has increased purchases from the US, Canada and Australia this year.
Other commodities have also been influenced by flooding in Henan, which is the main center for coal and metals.
Some aluminum production and procurement of scrap-metal have been stopped or reduced, according to researchers Mysteel, quoted its own survey.
On Wednesday, rescue workers and the authorities continue to work to prevent dam violations, restore lost power and pumping submerged gas stations.
President XI Jinping urged officials to increase disaster relief measures, CCTV broadcaster reports.
Flights entered Zhengzhou had also been suspended.
Zhengzhou saw 457.5 millimeters (18 inches) fell in 24 hours to 5 pm on Tuesday, the highest since the record began for the city of more than 10 million people, Xinhua reported.
It includes a 201.9 millimeter record in one hour, from 4pm to 5:00 a record for mainland China.
Zhengzhou usually accepts an average annual rainfall of around 640.8 millimeters.
Rainfall recording comes shortly after the main Chinese cities warn that houses and factories face new power outages as historical requests and lack of supply of grid strain energy.
Eleven provinces including East Manufacturing Hub and Central China which were locked in land reported the demand for recording and a surge in peak load last week, in the midst of hot weather.
Henan had begun to ban coal supply exports to other regions last week amid fears of energy supply due to heavy rain.
Greenpeace Nonprofit Environment warns that weather events in China are in accordance with the global pattern of extreme weather caused by climate change.
In the past few weeks, the US and Canada have experienced an unprecedented Heubwave, Europe and India have suffered great floods, forest fires have spread in Siberia and drought have gripped parts of Africa and Brazil.
“Climate change has made extreme weather such as heat waves and floods more often and more deadly in the last 20 years,” said the Climate and Energy campaign of East Asia Liu Junyan.
Recent events in Henan, together with North America and Europe “all are wake up calls that remind people about the crisis of climate change.”
The deadly flood sweeps ‘City iPhone’, 12 dead
