People ride a boat through a flooded road after the rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri, in Zhuozhou, Hebei province, China August 3, 2023.
The vast Hai River basin covers an area the size of Poland that includes Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin.
On his visit to flood storage areas in Baoding, Ni added that it was necessary to reduce the pressure on Beijing's flood control and create a "moat" for the Chinese capital.
"I'd like to know, among all the people living in flood storage areas across the country, how many of them know they are living in such areas?"
As of 8:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Friday, Hebei had relocated more than 1.54 million people, including 961,200 from flood storage areas, state media reported on Saturday.
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