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Fighting China's Floods

Fishermen collecting clams to save them from being washed away from the rising sea water caused by Typhoon Kaemi at a fishing pond place in Fuzhou, east China's Fujian province July 25, 2006. Typhoon Kaemi slammed into the mainland on Tuesday, leading to the evacuation of over 500,000 in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces.
A bus moving forward on a flooded street in Beijing, July 24, 2006. Beijing Meteorological Bureau raised rainstorm alarms twice on Tuesday.
Soldiers repairing the destroyed dam in Jinjiang, East China's Fujian Province July 25, 2006. Typhoon Kaemi landed in Weitou Town of Jinjiang City at 3:50 PM July 25.
Soldiers repairing the destroyed dam in Jinjiang, East China's Fujian Province July 25, 2006. Typhoon Kaemi landed in Weitou Town of Jinjiang City at 3:50 PM July 25.
Rain clouds gather over Haimen Port before the coming of typhoon Kaemi in Taizhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 25,2006. Emergency management authorities in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces ordered ships and fishermen in from the sea as Typhoon Kaemi approached the Chinese mainland, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
The picture shows a collapsed bridge in Quanzhou, east China's Fujian Province, July 23, 2006. The tropical storm Bilis and floods might cause the collapse of the Shunji Bridge, built in 1211 during the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279), sources said.
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (1st L) talking with local medical staff in Zixing City of central China's Hunan Province on July 22, 2006. Wen also gave instructions to local officials on reconstruction work and preparation against similar mishaps.
A train with 1,000 inmated aboard arriving at the Guangzhou Railway Station in the capital city of south China's Guangdong Province on July 20. A total of 8,699 inmates were transferred from nine prisons stricken by the floods triggers by the tropical storm Bilis. Authorities said this was the largest-scale prisoner transfer in the history of the province.
A child is saved from the flood in Nanning, capital of southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on July 18, 2006. Triggered by the tropical storm Bilis, the death toll in Guangxi rose to 19 with eight people missing.
A women walking in the flood with her child on her back on the expressway linking Leiyang with Yizhang in central China's Hunan Province on July 17, 2006. The one-kilometer section of the expressway was flooded with the deepest hydrops of 3 meters since the evening of July 15. About 100 vehicles and more than 1,000 people are blocked. The rescue work is now going on.
Chinese soldiers trying to repair a breached dike after the tropical storm Bilis in Zhangzhou City, east China's Fujian Province, July 17, 2006. One hundred and ninety-eight people have now been confirmed dead from the rainstorms and flooding across China triggered by the severe tropical storm Bilis, Xinhua reported.
Chinese soldiers rescue people in flood in Shaoguan, south China's Guangdong Province, July 16, 2006. Torrential rainstorms and flooding unleashed by Typhoon Bilis killed at least 154 people across southeast China, according to latest Xinhua and local news reports.
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