Guangzhou experienced a violent tornado, causing five deaths and major destruction to many factories. This affects the main part of China’s export economy.
A big tornado happened in the city of Guangzhou which is found in China’s Guangdong province, over this past weekend. It caused many deaths – at least five people died and 33 got injured from it. This event is a major part of recent string of extreme weather incidents that have hit China’s industrial heartland.
As per information given by China’s Xinhua news agency, the tornado occurred on Saturday and caused destruction in around 140 factories located at Guangdong province’s capital. Even though there was severe harm to industrial areas, no residential buildings were reported as having collapsed which might have lessened a bigger loss of lives and personal properties.
Guangdong, the province with most population in China that has over 127 million residents and thousands of factories, plays a very important role for country’s economy which is based on exports. The damage from tornado could affect production and export activities.
Images from above, given out by the country’s media, showed big destruction with many blocks of industry showing damage. This visual story emphasizes how serious the storm is on buildings in these places.
In reaction to the disaster, teams from weather, fire, waterworks and health departments were sent for emergency services. Also helping were local people all together to assist in the recovery process (Xinhua’s confirmation of completion of initial search and rescue operations).
This new tornado is happening not long after very bad floods in Guangdong at the start of this week, which caused four people to die. These events show a worrying trend of extreme weather in the area like we saw with notable tornadoes last year and terrible storms from Jiangsu during 2023.
Tornadoes, though not very frequent in China, seem to be happening more often and getting stronger. This matches with a general rise in extreme weather around the world. As China faces these difficulties, its ability to handle problems within its infrastructure and the quick reaction of emergency services come under scrutiny.
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