Overview

• Nearly 283,000 people were evacuated from vulnerable zones in Shanghai under an orange-level storm warning as Typhoon Co-May neared landfall.
• Search and rescue teams in Beijing’s Miyun and Huairou districts have deployed boats and soldiers to locate missing residents and evacuate threatened communities.
• Beijing Daily reports that more than 80,000 residents have already been displaced in the capital following the heaviest monsoon downpours in decades.
• Central authorities have released 550 million yuan for relief operations, including 200 million yuan earmarked for Beijing and 350 million yuan for nine other hard-hit regions.
• Meteorological agencies have issued maximum flood alerts in Beijing and high-level torrential rain warnings across Hebei and Shanxi provinces.