The rain in the area was the heaviest on record in the city, according to China’s state television network, CCTV. Xi’s directive mobilized soldiers from the Central Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army to help with rescue efforts and to shore up the Yihetan Dam near the city of Luoyang, about 75 miles upstream from Zhengzhou, after it suffered a 65-foot breach.
Xi called the flooding “very severe” and warned that some dams had been damaged even as rivers exceeded alert levels.
In a sign of the severity of the disaster, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, ordered the authorities to give top priority to people’s safety, Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said in a report that described “heavy casualties and property losses” without providing specific figures. By the afternoon, some passengers were able to leave, while railway workers brought supplies to those still waiting aboard for service to resume. At least one carrying 735 people came to a stop near Zhengzhou and, after more than 40 hours, had run out of food and water. With the rain still falling, nearly 10,000 people were trapped aboard passenger trains in Henan, unable to move because water covered the tracks, the newsmagazine Caixin reported. The subway remained closed through Wednesday evening. (Photo by Courtesy of Weibo user merakiZz- / AFP) The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, one of the country’s largest, filled with floodwater, losing electricity and jeopardizing patients being treated or monitored with electrical medical devices. Photo taken from Weibo user merakiZz- shows a submerged subway car following heavy rains in Zhengzhou in China's central Henan province.
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