Water level

CHINA’S Ministry of Water Resources said Sunday that the water level of 12 rivers across the country exceeded the warning level due to heavy rainfall from Thursday to Saturday.

The rivers are located in the provincial-level regions of Jiangsu, Liaoning, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Inner Mongolia and Heilongjiang, according to the ministry.

Heavy rains affected parts of Southwest China, regions between the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River, areas between the Yellow River and the Huaihe River, Northeast China and Hubei Province over the three-day period.

Intl. cruise ship

A CRUISE ship registered in Liberia docked at a port in North China’s Tianjin Municipality on Saturday, becoming the first international cruise ship received by the Tianjin port over the past three years.

The cruise ship, Dream, is 261 meters long and 40 meters wide. It can accommodate over 2,000 passengers with more than 1,000 cabins.

To ensure the efficient berthing of the ship, local authorities helped more than 60 Chinese and foreign crew members fulfill all the formalities online for entering the port.

New satellite

CHINA on Sunday sent a new test satellite into space from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China.

The satellite was launched by a Long March-2C carrier rocket at 7:00 p.m. (Beijing Time) and entered the planned orbit.