There have been 33 deaths from heavy floods in Beijing with 18 still missing, Beijing Daily reports.
The flooding following Typhoon Doksuri has stricken nearly 1.29 million people, causing the collapse of 59,000 homes and seriously damaging 147,000 homes, the newspaper said.
The floods, which devastated farms and cities in the northern Hebei province and surrounding areas, saw more than 1.5 million people evacuated.
The record-breaking rains arrived in late July as the remnants of Doksuri moved inland, battering northern China. Rainfall last week broke many records in Beijing and northern China, with the vast Haihe river basin hit with its worst flooding since 1963.
The impact of typhoons is rare in China's northeast, with most typhoons moving west or northwest after making landfall, meteorological experts say.
China's Cabinet said authorities would speed up the restoration of power and telecom connections destroyed by the floods, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing a cabinet meeting chaired by Premier Li Qiang.
Other parts of China are struggling with drought, putting further pressure on food supplies for the nation’s 1.4 billion people already struggling with the disruption in grain shipments resulting from Russia’s war against Ukraine.
In early July, at least 15 people were killed by floods in the southwestern region of Chongqing, and about 5,590 people in the far northwestern province of Liaoning had to be evacuated. In the central province of Hubei, rainstorms trapped residents in their vehicles and homes.
