BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- The Ministry of Water Resources on Saturday announced that the Xijiang River in the Pearl River basin is experiencing its 2024 "Nowaxnftgame.1 Flood," a classification given to the first flood to reach a certain standard of severity in a single river each year.
Water flows at the Wuzhou hydrological station in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region rose to the station's warning line of 18.5 meters at 3waxnftgame:20 p.m. Saturday.
To date, seven heavy floods have occurred in the Pearl River basin this year.
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The ministry said it would strengthen forecasts and early warnings, and take preventative measures against floods in the basin.
It issued a Level-IV emergency response to flooding across four southern provincial-level regions on Friday, projecting that heavy rains would hit Guangxi, Fujian, Yunnan and Guizhou from Friday to Sunday.
China has a four-tier flood-control emergency response system, with Level I being the most extreme response.■