Overview

• Local Market Supervision Bureau and Public Security Bureau opened investigations into the July 25 flood that washed away display cases at Laofengxiang.
• Family members and shop staff spent two days searching mud and debris to recover jewellery, retrieving about one kilogram so far.
• Residents launched a spontaneous search using metal detectors but few found items have been returned to the shop.
• A power outage during the flooding disabled the shop’s CCTV system, complicating efforts to trace how jewellery was swept away or collected.
• Laofengxiang is offering rewards proportional to the value of returned items and has warned that withholding found jewellery could result in legal action.