On July 31, Hebei province opened seven of its 13 designated flood storage areas, including two in the city of Zhuozhou in Baoding south of Beijing and north of Xiongan, a zone President Xi ...

The Haihe basin covers Beijing, Tianjin, the greater part of Hebei, and parts of Shandong ... causing it to burst onto the plain in treat floods. The city of Tianjin was inundated on more than ...