Overview

• City authorities report 44 fatalities and nine people still missing after extreme monsoon rains from July 23–29 inundated Beijing and surrounding districts.
• Thirty-one residents died at the Taishitun Town Elderly Care Centre in Miyun District, the single largest loss of life in the storm’s aftermath.
• More than 80,000 people have been evacuated and over 300,000 residents affected, with thousands of homes, roads and villages damaged across northern Beijing.
• Peak inflow into the Miyun Reservoir reached 6,550 m³/s—the highest rate since its 1960 construction—overwhelming existing flood defenses.
• Deputy Mayor Xia Linmao and Miyun Party Secretary Yu Weiguo admitted failures in forecasting and disaster plans and pledged emergency funding alongside long-term resilience reforms.