China-Drought Relief

Shotlist

Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, northwest China – June 24, 2022 (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of dry farmland

Shaanxi Province, northwest China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
2. Workers dredging ditch
3. Water flowing in ditch
4. Various of farmland being irritated, farmers working
5. Various of workers checking, repairing power facilities

Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, north China – Recent (CCTV – No access Chinese mainland)
6. Various of ditch
7. Various of workers connecting pipes for irrigation
8. Worker switching on pump
9. Various of farmland being irritated, farmers working

Storyline

The State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Saturday initiated a level-IV (the lowest level) response to drought in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and northwest China’s Shaanxi and Gansu Provinces.

Special working groups have been dispatched to the three provincial-level regions to oversee and guide the local drought relief work.

From April to mid-June this year, parts of north, northwest, central and east China were affected by drought due to a lack of sufficient rainfalls.

Since late June, the drought in east China’s Shandong and Anhui Provinces, central China’s Henan Province, and north China’s Hebei and Shanxi Provinces has been gradually alleviated as heavy rain fell in these places. However, the drought in Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi and Gansu has continued.

China has a four-level response mechanism for natural disasters like flooding and drought. Level-I is the highest-level response to the most destructive disasters, while level-II, level-III and level-IV, to less and less destructive ones.