8 china TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 2012 CHINA DAILY Rains spawn deadly fl oods, mudslide By AN BAIJIE in Beijing and WU YONG in Benxi, Liaoning Third typhoon in week expected At least nine people in Liaon- ing province, fi ve in Hubei prov- By JIN ZHU in Beijing fi erce tropical storm on Sun- hai Central Meteorological ince and one in Yunnan province and LI XINZHU in Shanghai day and further strengthened Station. were confirmed dead in floods into a typhoon on Monday Real-time weather informa- and mudslides triggered by rain- China was braced on Mon- afternoon. It is approaching tion will be sent to residents via storms on Monday. day for a record third typhoon the coastal area of East China’s TV, radio, micro blogs and text Six in Xiuyan county and three within a week as torrential Zhejiang province. Th e center messages. in Haicheng city were found rains and floods brought by of Haikui was in the ocean, The Shanghai Railway dead, and four others remain two powerful storms still about 580 kilometers south- Bureau has decided to suspend missing aft er Typhoon Damrey aff ected many regions. east of Shanghai by 3 pm on the sale of train tickets of the swept through Northeast China’s The country is faced with Monday. Ningbo-Taizhou-Wenzhou Liaoning during the weekend, a tremendous burden from Heavy rainstorms brought Railway along the southeast fl ood control authorities said. fl oods and other disasters due by Haikui are expected to coast on Wednesday in order Floods trapped 201 construc- to frequent typhoons since hit Shanghai and Zhejiang, to ensure the safety of passen- tion workers in a tunnel of a mid-July, Chen Lei, minister Anhui, Fujian and Jiangsu gers. high-speed railway in the prov- of water resources, said on provinces in next three days, Tourism authorities in ince’s Benxi about 9:40 am on Monday. according to the China Meteo- Zhoushan, Zhejiang, issued a Monday, said Ban Yue, a public- “It is the fi rst time that the rological Administration. notice on its micro blog, warn- ity offi cial for the city’s govern- country will have been hit According to the Shanghai ing tourists to evacuate, and ment. by three typhoons one after Meteorological Bureau, Hai- saying all sightseeing places will Th e fl ood destroyed a bridge another within seven days,” he kui is moving northwestward be temporarily closed. and blocked the workers’ escape said in a statement posted on at 15 kilometers an hour. Th e State Flood Control and route, he said. the ministry’s website. The bureau issued a blue Drought Relief Headquarters Benxi rescue crews managed While the country is still typhoon alert on Monday. sent four work teams on Mon- to transfer all of the workers to dealing with the impact of Haikui is expected to move day to Shanghai and Zhejiang, safety within four hours, said typhoons Saola and Damrey over the central and north- Jiangsu and Jiangxi provinces Zhang Jingqi, a fi refi ghter. that caused extensive damage ern coastal areas of Zhejiang to supervise flood control When China Daily reporters over the weekend, typhoon between midnight on Tuesday work. arrived at the scene, two dark- Haikui is fast approaching, to noon on Wednesday, wind Local authorities should colored rivers were flowing said Chen, who is also dep- speed may reach 108 to 119 step up inspections to prevent quickly through the tunnel, and uty commander-in-chief of kilometers per hour as the cen- any potential typhoon infl ict- a temporary bridge was severely the State Flood Control and ter of the storm moves across ed damage to major facilities damaged. Drought Relief Headquarters. the coast. such as the chemical industry, Most of the construction New tropical cyclones will Shanghai is expected to be nuclear power plants and rail- workers returned to their tents be formed in the next two lashed by rainstorms brought roads. aft er being rescued, while sev- days, which may continue to by Haikui from Tuesday to eral others carried on with the challenge the country’s fl ood Th ursday, with heavy rains in Contact the writers at jin- construction work in safe areas. control capacity. some areas, said Yao Jianqun, [email protected] and “I never expected that they Haikui strengthened into a deputy director of the Shang- [email protected] could be rescued within such a short time,” said a Benxi resi- RAINFALL TO BE BROUGHT BY TYPHOON HAIKUI dent named Zhang. “I thought it from 8 pm Monday to 8 pm Tuesday would take at least a day to trans- fer so many people.” Th e typhoon cut off electric- HEAVY RAIN PROJECTED PATH ity, paralyzed road traffic and (25-49.9MM) damaged drinking water facili- WANG SHIJIE / FOR CHINA DAILY ties in Xiuyan, leaving more than Rescuers save a child trapped by fl oods in Benxi, Liaoning province, on Monday. DOWNPOUR (50-99.9MM) 110,000 people homeless. Floods triggered by rainstorms more than 200 people in the nomic losses of more than 98 trapped by flood in Gucheng TORRENTIAL RAIN in Dalian, Liaoning, retreated on mountainous Fengyu and Lian- million yuan ($15 million) county of Xiangyang, said Xiao (100-250MM) Sunday night, as many residents tie townships. Th e rescuers man- in Eryuan, with 193 hectares Haifeng, a fi refi ghter. in Chengzitan township tried to aged to save more than 80 as of of farmland destroyed, 81 Rescuers managed to transfer dry their clothes in the sun on Monday aft ernoon and authori- houses collapsed, 488 heads more than 830 people to safety Monday. ties are still working to free the of livestock killed, 17 roads and rescued 324 people from 5 pm In Southwest China’s Yunnan, remaining trapped people, Zhou and eight bridges destroyed, places surrounded by deep water CHINA Monday a 92-year-old woman was found said. and three power plants dam- by Monday aft ernoon. 5 pm dead and a 82-year-old woman Li Xiangyang, a resident aged, according to the county Th e heavy rain collapsed 178 was missing in Eryuan county of of Fengyu, said that the rainy government. houses and destroyed 409 hect- 5 pm Tuesdayy the Dali Bai autonomous prefec- weather had lasted for nearly As of 2 pm on Monday, at least ares of crops, the Xiangyang gov- Wednesdaydnnesday ture, where a mudslide occurred half a month. fi ve people had been confi rmed ernment said on Monday. on Monday morning. “A loud noise from the val- dead and one remained missing Forty villagers were injured by ley behind my house woke me due to heavy rain in Shiyan and Zhang Xiaomin in Dalian the mudslide and all were sent and my two children this morn- Xiangyang in Central China’s contributed to this story. TYPHOONTYPHOON HAIKUIHAIKIKI UII to hospital for treatment, Zhou ing,” he said. “Mud poured down Hubei province, according to the NP Hongbing, a publicity offi cial for before I know what was happen- provincial flood control head- Contact the writers at anbaijie@ Eryuan, said on Monday. ing.” quarters. chinadaily.com.cn and wuy- Source: National Meteorological Center GUILLERMO MUNRO, FENG XIUXIA / CHINA DAILY Th e mudslide initially trapped The mudslide caused eco- More than 1,200 people were [email protected] TIMELINE Revised draft of labor law DRAFT LAWS OR AMEND- MENTS THAT HAVE Proposed amendment RECEIVED THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF PUBLIC attracts huge public attention COMMENTS: 1. DRAFT AMENDMENT draws people’s interest By CHEN XIN ions collected showed labor tries, such as petrochemical, TO THE LABOR CON- TRACT LAW, 2012 and ZHAO YINAN outsourcing is overused and telecommunication, finance it should have been regulated and banking companies, Days open for advice: 31 By ZHAO YINAN est in levies and expenses, as Th e annual amount of unde- Four proposed amendments earlier. employ the most outsourced Pieces of advice: 557,243 [email protected] the government continues to clared funds can reach 300 to the Labor Contract Law have “In general, outsourced workers, the report said. harvest surplus revenue. to 400 billion yuan ($47 bil- received a massive amount of workers do not enjoy the same Wang said in many public 2. DRAFT AMENDMENT A draft amendment to the Th e amendment, if passed, lion to $63 billion), said Yang public interest, with a record wages or social security ben- hospitals, doctors, pharmacists TO THE BUDGET LAW, Budget Law, the latest attempt would establish a set of Zhengwu, a deputy to the NPC number of people contacting efi ts as regular workers who are and nurses are outsourced and 2012 to shore up supervision on requirements on budget Standing Committee, during authorities to have their say on doing the same jobs and they in many universities, teachers, Days open for advice: 31 government spending, has making and enforcing, such a session to discuss the draft the law by Sunday night. are often offered long-term researchers and administrative Pieces of advice: 330,960 apparently struck a chord with as requiring governments in June. Nearly 560,000 online com- posts rather than the tempo- staff are also outsourced. the public. to include all revenues and Li Weiguang, a professor of ments were made on the pro- rary, supportive and substitute “All those positions are so 3. DRAFT AMENDMENT During a monthlong online spending in annual budgets, government fi nance at Tian- posed amendments to the positions that the law demands important that they should not TO THE PERSONAL IN- campaign to solicit feedback making the budget public aft er jin University of Finance and Labor Contract Law over the for labor outsourcing,” he said.