Vehicles plough through flooded streets in Luocheng county in southern China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region yesterday. China’s national observatory Sunday issued a yellow alert for rainstorms in a vast part of the country, including Guangdong, Hebei, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Schools across Shenzhen were closed yesterday after the local meteorological observatory issued a red alert for heavy rain at around 5:30 a.m. A new round of heavy rain is expected to affect Shenzhen this week ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival.Xinhua |