STORY: Flood-hit Fangshan District in Beijing copes with Doksuri aftermath
DATELINE: Aug. 2, 2023
LENGTH: 00:01:28
LOCATION: Beijing
CATEGORY: SOCIETY
 
SHOTLIST:
1. various the flood-hit area
2. STANDUP 1 (English): GUO PEIRAN, Xinhua correspondent
3. SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHAO HAONAN, Villager, Shangwan Village
4. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHENG MINGHUI, Villager, Shangwan Village
 
STORYLINE:
 
Typhoon Doksuri has brought heavy rainfall to Beijing in the past few days.
 
The city recorded 744.8 millimeters of rain between Saturday and Wednesday, the highest since records began 140 years ago.
 
Among the hardest hit was Shangwan Village, Fangshan District located in the mountainous region in southwest Beijing.
 
STANDUP 1 (English): GUO PEIRAN, Xinhua correspondent
"About five to six hours earlier before the heavy rainstorm hit Beijing on Saturday, the local authorities of Beijing's mountainous area started to relocate its residents to safe areas like here, the place where I am now in. Once it was a conference room for the village government. And now it has relocated about 88 people from 29 families."
 
SOUNDBITE 1 (Chinese): ZHAO HAONAN, Villager, Shangwan Village
"I came here with my grandpa and grandma."
("So you were informed by the village government?")
"Yes. They gave us a call."
("Are you scared?")
"No. I feel safe here. I would be scared if I were alone."
 
SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): ZHENG MINGHUI, Villager, Shangwan Village
"We came here on Saturday night. The government told us to come. They said there would be heavy rainfall. It's good here. We are taken good care of."
 
As the rainfall stopped and the flood receded, villagers started cleaning up the aftermath.
 
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Beijing.
(XHTV)