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CNN —Days of heavy rain have caused severe flooding in China’s leading grain-producing region in the northeast, killing 14 people and raising concerns about food security as floodwater inundated farmlands. As the storm moved further north, another 14 deaths were reported Sunday in the city of Shulan in Jilin province. Firefighters operate a drainage machine near a village in the city of Mudanjiang in northeastern China's Heilongjiang province on August 5. A cornfield is submerged by floodwater in a village in Hebi city, Henan province on August 5. A flooded farm in Xinxiang city, Henan province on August 5.
Persons: Doksuri, Zhang Tao, floodwater, Typhoon Khanun, Xi Jinping Organizations: CNN, Xinhua, Firefighters, China’s Ministry of Water Resources, Communist Party, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Affairs, National Bureau of Statistics, China Meteorological Administration, Qiushi, Communist Locations: China, Beijing, Hebei, Shulan, Jilin province, Heilongjiang, Mudanjiang, China's Heilongjiang, Jilin, Harbin, Shangzhi, Wuchang, Liaoning, Hebi city, Henan province, Henan, Xinxiang city
Real estate agents said low-cost apartments in smaller Chinese cities such as Huainan and Rushan in the east, and Gejiu in the southwest, are also being bought, largely by people living outside those locations. The deals come at a time the picture for China’s property market is getting darker. For buyers with the means to get back into the market, the rock-bottom prices of second-hand apartments in the smaller cities have been hard to resist. ‘BUYERS ARE NOT LOCALS’Real estate agents said buyers in the small cities are mostly from out of town. “The fact that there are so many people buying low-cost flats in smaller cities reflects caution,” said Hwabao Trust economist Nie Wen.
Persons: Hu Yongwei, Thomas Peter, Hu, , Zhao, Liu Yong, Gejiu, , Nie Wen Organizations: Reuters, REUTERS, Beijing, Hwabao Locations: BEIJING, HONG KONG, Beijing, Hebi, Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, Huainan, Rushan, Anjuke, Chongqing, COVID
He walked through the night, keeping to a northerly route, towards his hometown of Hebi, every step taking him farther away from iPhone maker Foxconn's (2317.TW) Zhengzhou plant, the Taiwan-based group's largest in mainland China. "There were so many people on the road," Yuan told Reuters on Monday, declining to give his full name because of the matter's sensitivity. "People would be called away in the middle of work, and if they don't show up the next day, that would mean they had been taken away," Yuan said. On Sunday afternoon, the company told Reuters in an emailed statement that workers were allowed to leave if they chose to. "I'll never go back to Foxconn," said Yuan, who has since been transported to Hebi and put under quarantine.
After enduring days of lock-in at Foxconn's vast facility in central China with 200,000 other workers, Yuan finally climbed the fences on Saturday night and escaped the complex, joining others fleeing what they feared was a widening Covid outbreak. He walked through the night, keeping to a northerly route, towards his hometown of Hebi, every step taking him farther away from iPhone maker Foxconn's Zhengzhou plant, the Taiwan-based group's largest in mainland China. "There were so many people on the road," Yuan told Reuters on Monday, declining to give his full name because of the matter's sensitivity. "People would be called away in the middle of work, and if they don't show up the next day, that would mean they had been taken away," Yuan said. On Sunday afternoon, the company told Reuters in an emailed statement that workers were allowed to leave if they chose to.
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