纽约时报中文网 - 英文原版-英Heavy Rains Lash Southern China Killing at Least 9
June 19, 2024 2 min 392 words
《纽约时报》的这篇报道以较为负面和夸张的语气，描述南方部分地区出现的强降雨天气和相关灾害。报道以“暴雨肆虐中国南方，至少9人死亡”为标题，着重强调了强降雨造成的损失和负面影响，包括至少9人死亡1万人被迫转移，以及房屋受损道路中断等。 评论： 这篇报道存在一定程度的偏见和负面导向，其行文重点更多集中在负面影响和损失上，而对中国政府及时应对灾害保障人民生命财产安全的努力缺乏客观报道。事实上，中国政府在灾害预警人员疏散救援安置等方面做了大量工作，有效保障了人民生命财产安全，这一点也得到很多国际媒体的积极评价。报道中提到的“至少9人死亡”也缺乏更具体的信息支持，可能造成不必要的恐慌。此外，报道没有提及强降雨可能的原因，是否有其他因素影响，有欠中立。
Heavy rains battered southern China over the weekend and into Tuesday, setting off landslides and causing roads and homes to collapse as rivers overran their banks.
The landslides and flash floods killed at least nine people in Fujian Province and neighboring Guangdong, China’s most populous province. Dozens of people remained trapped or missing as of Tuesday.
Days of severe rainfall forced thousands of people to evacuate and left more than 100,000 households without power as the region was inundated.
As of Monday, at least 17 rivers had risen above warning levels in Guangdong, according to local media. The province has a population of about 127 million people.
Video footage showed bridges collapsing into rushing rivers and debris floating down city streets after hundreds of buildings had collapsed.
While officials and rescue workers sought to control the deluge in southern China, the authorities faced the opposite problem in the north, which has been parched by high temperatures and little or no rainfall. The heat prompted warnings about damage to crops in farming areas in different parts of the country. China’s Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday it had allocated $61 million to help with replanting, watering and fertilizing in areas affected by the recent heat and lack of rain.
Officials in China’s central Henan Province last week increased the amount of water flowing from a local reservoir to relieve the drought.
On Tuesday afternoon, China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, noted the casualties and said that flood control and prevention efforts will be increasingly challenging as China enters its annual flood season, according to state media.
Officials warned that the severe weather was set to continue. On Tuesday, the National Meteorological Administration issued alerts for rainstorms and landslides in southern provinces that have already been hit by heavy rains. It also warned that in northern areas, temperatures could top 100 degrees Fahrenheit.
In April, nearly 20,000 people were evacuated from northern Guangdong when nine rivers were reported to be at risk of overflowing.
Last year, unusually heavy rainfall disrupted the summer wheat harvest in Henan. Only a few weeks later, nearly 1 million people were forced to evacuate in neighboring Hebei and adjacent villages around Beijing when the heaviest rainfall in more than a century pounded northern China, angering residents whose homes and farms were inundated when officials diverted floodwaters to spare the capital.