Xi calls for improving disaster prevention as floods, landslides batter China

BEIJING – Chinese President Xi Jinping called for improving the country’s ability to prevent, mitigate and respond to natural disasters, after a string of deadly floods and landslides this summer.

Xi’s remarks, published on Aug 15 in Qiushi, a journal central to Communist Party messaging, follow China’s strongest typhoon in 2026 and a series of landslides that killed dozens, underscoring the growing toll of extreme weather on the world’s second-largest economy.…

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