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A boy walks through a flooded street during a downpour in Nanjing, capital city of east China's Jiangsu Province, July 5, 2003.
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Nanjing was the heaviest rainfall in the city in 20 years,Saturday, July 5.
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Passengers abandon a bus because of its flameout during a downpour in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, Saturday, July 5, 2003.
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Police build up a sandbag wall.
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Houses by the Huangpu River are in danger.
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A pumping station inside Shanghai's anti-flood wall that had withstood high waters on the Huangpu River finally subsides under pressure, July 3, 2003, following the break of a dyke below the wall.
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Villagers in the Mengwa Flood Diversion Area in Funan, East China's Anhui Province, watch the floodwather roaring into 12,000 hectares of farmland.
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Diverted flood water roars at the Wangjiaba section of the Huaihe River after the sluice gates were opened early Thursday morning.
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A villager looks at his village submerged beneath floodwaters on July 6, 2003.
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Villagers in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province, about 1 kilometre from Tangduo Lake, work on flood defences.
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Villagers pile up sand bags in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province on July 6, 2003.
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Villagers pile up sand bags in Huangtai Village, Yinshang County of East China's Anhui Province on July 6, 2003.
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Factories and residential buildings submerged in floodwater in Jiangsu.
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More than 250 oil wells around Hongze Lake are submerged in floodwater in east China's Jiangsu Province.
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People's Liberation Army soldiers evacuate residents in East China's Jiangsu Province, due to flooding from the Huaihe River.
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Flood in Li River, Hunan Province, is seen in this July 8 photo.
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Flood in Li River, Hunan Province, is seen in this July 8 photo.
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The Zhangjiajie municipal government building is partly submerged after a rainstorm-caused spate burst Tuesday. Local traffic has been halted and hundreds of residents were evacuated.
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The sluice gate at Tuanjie Lake in Xuyi is submerged in floodwater.
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Tired soldiers take a rest.
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A family from Huoqiu County in east China's Anhui Province is evacuated by boat.
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Zhu Zhiping, an evacuated villager from a flooded area, takes care of her two grandchildren at her temporary home.
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A farmer guides a flock of sheep from flooded areas to a safe place in Xuyi, East China's Jiangsu Province.
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Rescuers clear the site of a landslide on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in Linzhi, Tibet.
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A section of the railway linking Baoji in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province and Chengdu, the capital city of Southwest China's Sichuan Province, was blocked by a mudslide caused by heavy rain.
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A huge oil-pumping machine is partly submerged in flood in Shengjiaba, Jiangsu Oil Field on July 11.
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Workers at Jiangsu Oil Field inspect a waterlogged overland oil well on July 11, 2003.
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Oil transportation facilities are critically damaged by the flood in Jiangsu Oil Field.
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Workers prepare to make sandbags to protect the main road from river flooding near a flag of Chinese Communist Party, July 12, 2003 in Fengyang, Anhui Province.
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Chinese farmer receives food aid from the Red Cross after his home was flooded, in Chuhe, which lies between China's Anhui and Jiangsu province.
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Residents move their personal belongs after a mudslide crashed through the remote mountain village of Badi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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Residents move their personal belongs after a mudslide crashed through the remote mountain village of Badi, in Southwest China's Sichuan Province.
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A bicycle wheel was distorted by the mighty force of the mudslide.
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Chinese farmer receives food aid from the Red Cross after his home was flooded, in Chuhe, which lies between China's Anhui and Jiangsu province.
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Merciless flood.
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Searching for the missing.
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A local official directs the residents to evacuate.
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Difficult cycling
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Searching for the missing.
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a besieged dog
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Two PLA soldiers carry an old man to safety in Shouxian, East China's Anhui Province on July 13, 2003.
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Closer to safety.
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After more than 18 hours of repair work, the Baoji-Chendu railway resumed normal operations July 14.
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The tropical storm damages or uproots many trees in the island province of Hainan.
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All maritime transportation at the Qiongzhou Straits was suspended due to the bad weather.
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Typhoon Koni causes huge waves.
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Typhoon Koni, China's first tropical storm of the year, hits South China's Hainan Province, triggering torrential rain and injuring several people, July 21, 2003.
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