Massive floods in this province, Not a natural disaster! Mining, Deforestation, Tofu dreg...

foreign [Music] on May 6 2023 China's Southern Province jiangxi was hit by the strongest rainstorm since the beginning of the flood season a riverbank breached and flooded four nearby Villages fujo City experienced heavy rain in many places The Province launched a four-level emergency and flood control response foreign it's gone it's all Fallen look the water is up to the knees and the Deep part is up to the chest um you don't matter oh my gosh the road is gone such a mess be safe this is scary this place is too low lying the water can't get out wow it's so scary [Music] foreign [Music] we were in the countryside it rained very hard and through the night now the water is receded in the low-lying areas the water is more than one meter and the usual roads have water about a half a meter deep that was the morning the water receded in the afternoon now people are all inside to salvage stuff such as refrigerators washing machines chickens geese Etc some people raised them at home they try to salvage and move them to higher places our entire Village of rice paddies was all flooded one layer two layers three layers 99 flooded according to official media reports in China since May 4th 10 counties in zhangshi Province have experienced torrential rain 34 Counties have experienced very heavy rainfall in 63 Counties have experienced heavy rainfall fujo city was hit by torrential rain with several towns and Villages receiving more than 250 millimeters of precipitation in 24 hours namely at a torrential rain level with Three Counties receiving up to 307.7 millimeters 304 millimeters and 302 millimeters respectively in addition a riverbank breach of more than 30 meters in the lower river section happened flooding four Villages Downstream each when City Emergency Management Bureau staff told the official media Beijing news world that the breach caused about 1 000 people and 10 000 mu of Farmland to be affected it's still raining so those who are farming fish are free to sleep tonight they're busy outside setting up the net to prevent the fish from escaping they say the dike has broken in some low-lying section the fish have always escaped the loss is very heavy look it's turning into a big river a big Rice Field you can't see anything you see the water is filling up to the top it's so dramatic wow the line top here is submerged my goodness look this was a vegetable patch before the water has reached the top there is a ditch below but you can't see it now look a huge area has become a big fish pond from a distance it looks like an ocean [Music] [Applause] foreign for safety reasons we have set speed limits for the affected section meanwhile more than 60 rescue workers have been dispatched to the site why are cages containing sacks of ballast have been placed to reinforce the protection cones of the Railway Bridge the local villagers told overseas Chinese media on the evening of May 5th the dike broke the water was very big several Villages were flooded the villagers were all relocated the town's residents were also evacuated the telecommunication was affected another villager said that he had never seen such a great flood for more than 20 years it rained heavily from the afternoon of May 4th to the evening and suddenly the water Rose leakage occurred in low-lying parts and it breached the dike the water washed over several Villages the Dyke breached and people were still sleeping when it hit at night the water Rose quite high and basically everything below the third floor of the village was flooded he said water swept into Villages and farmlands people were all transferred and some were placed in the local elementary school according to a CCTV report the heavy rainfall in jiangxi has caused rivers to rise Farmland to be flooded and large-scale water logging in urban areas as of May 6 this round of heavy rainfall has caused 293 thousand people to be affected in 29 counties and six cities 10 000 people have been relocated and more than 1 000 people needed emergency assistance over 37 000 hectares of crops have been affected and 375 hectares of crops have been destroyed 52 households and 84 houses have been damaged in general and the direct economic loss is about 230 million Yuan a netizen said in a blog post on May 6th the water has been bigger than the great flood in 1998. I called my Uncle in the morning to ask about the situation it's another year working in vain the countryside is all landslides and mudslides and the planted bamboo mushrooms are all flooded with a loss of more than one hundred thousand Yuan many places in the country are also flooded now the rain is still pouring down oh we were on the second floor and the first floor was all flooded I did not dare to go down anyway it is 1.5 meters deep the fridge rice cooker Etc are done there we don't know we woke up and found everything was flooded people are salvaging things however much they can they're moving stuff upstairs quickly I have never experienced this so I didn't move stuff to high places it's still raining heavily it doesn't stop so annoying faced with the mass of blood people are now heavy-hearted and lamenting the difficult days ahead full of Despair they say food prices are already low and peasants are struggling to make ends meet now the so-called natural disaster has added to the misery of the peasants who are already without any Social Security it's only the beginning of May there is already a massive flood in zhangshi Province so why have the floods and zhangshi been so serious in recent years in addition to the construction of the Three Gorges Dam discussed in previous episodes that cause ecological damage and downstream drainage problems there was also the problem of the widespread tofu dragging nature of Dykes the government's acceptance of Kickbacks and loose supervision of quality another major cause of flooding in jiangxi province is the predatory exploitation of rare Earth Resources Dr Wong Wei luo is a renowned expert on the Three Gorges Dam Who currently lives in Germany he said that the rare earth mines developed in China had mined those mountains in the upper reaches of zhangshi to such an extent that they were bald and a little rain could cause a disaster having summarized some media reports from the mainland media from 2010 to 2019 on the floods that struck zhangshi year after year he wrote in an article predatory exploitation of rare Earth Resources rare metal resources non-ferrous metal resources and other mineral resources have caused serious damage to the ecological environment of zhangshi Province and the serious damage to the ecological environment has led to frequent occurrences of severe floods and disasters according to public data jiangxi province is rich in Mineral Resources among the 150 types of minerals identified in China zhangshi has found more than 140 types of solid mineral resources Gonzo in Junction province is one of the three major production bases of heavy rare Earths among them the identified reserves of itrium group rare Earths rank first in China in his article citing a number of experts wangwei luo wrote since the mid to late 1980s mining of rare Earth Resources and ganjo has fallen into a chaotic situation with indiscriminate Mining and unrestrained competition for every ton of rare earth mind 300 square meters of topsoil is stripped resulting in two to three thousand cubic meters of tailings causing at least 1200 cubic meters of soil erosion predatory exploitation of rare Earth Resources is far more damaging to the ecological environment than deforestation deforestation only shaves the mountains and Earth while the predatory exploitation of rare Earth Resources is simply stripped of the scalp to use an example leaving the Earth completely bare and loose through stripping the ground the surface vegetation is all but destroyed and in the event of heavy rains without trees leaves roots and other vegetation to absorb and intercept rainwater surface runoff forms blood flows in a short period of time and is prone to Serious erosion or geological disasters such as landslides and mudslides soil erosion leads to an increase in the amount of sediment in rivers an increase in the riverbed a decrease in the natural flood passage capacity of rivers and a higher blood level than before even under the same flood flow conditions the increase in the amount of sediment in rivers also leads to an increase in the siltation in reservoirs a decrease and flood control capacity and a drastic reduction in the effectiveness of blood control as each ton of rare earth mind causes 1200 cubic meters of soil erosion the riverbeds of rivers such as the ganjiang river in zhangshi Province continue to rise according to the public record the bottom of the poe young Lake Rose 15 centimeters per year from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s the decrease of the volume of Poe young lake is very easy to create flood disasters at the same time we should also see that the elevation of the bottom of Poe young Lake will force the riverbed of jiangxi rivers to continue to elevate and the flood level to continue to elevate so the risk of future floods becomes bigger this is one of the main reasons for the continuous flood disasters in zhangshi in recent years as the spring season transitions to the summer rivers in China are entering the flooding season the tragedy of the past few years of heavy flooding in both northern and southern China will probably happen again the onset of the heavy rainfall season has posed a challenge to the campaign of converting forests back to farmland and is likely to result in environmental disasters in 1998 a super flood occurred in the Yangtze River after the disaster the then Premier jurongji called for the closing of mountains and planting trees and returning Farmland to forests so the reforestation project has been implemented for nearly 20 years however recently the Chinese Communist authorities have suddenly reversed that policy and launched a new campaign to convert forests to Farmland it has already triggered floods look the muddy water is Flowing down the newly created Farmland on the hillside and there is no vegetation on the ground under heavy rain it is easy to form soil and rock flows and get destroyed [Applause] thank you [Applause] that pizza plant is our family what else can we plant the government said they would cut down all the trees what else can we plant if we cut trees down this is what happens when it rains heavily Chinese people especially those in the middle in lower reaches of the Yangtze and yellow Rivers the summer rainy season is coming so beware of the Communist party's unannounced discharge of flood waters to avoid compensation to the flood victims the dike managers and government officials discharge dikes without notifying residents in advance moreover be particularly Vigilant about the Subways and tunnels which are prone to flooding and watch out for the safety of you and your family's lives and property thank you