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The 1931 China floods, or the 1931 Yangtze–Huai River floods, occurred from June to August 1931 in China, hitting major cities such as Wuhan, Nanjing and beyond, and eventually culminated in a dike breach along Lake Gaoyou on 25 August 1931. Fatality estimates vary widely.
Huang He floods, series of devastating floods (1887, 1931, 1938) in China caused by the overflowing of the Huang He (Yellow River), the country’s second longest river. These three floods collectively killed millions and are considered to be the three deadliest floods in history.
Yangtze River floods, floods of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang) in central and eastern China that have occurred periodically and often have caused considerable destruction of property and loss of life. Among the most recent major flood events are those of 1870, 1931, 1954, 1998, 2010, and 2020.
On August 25, 1931, after months of torrential flooding, levees around the city of Gaoyou, China, break and the Yangtze River overflows, killing between 10,000 and 15,000 in a single night.
In 1931 Central China experienced a devastating flood that inundated an area equivalent in size of England and half of Scotland, affected the lives of an estimated 52 million people, and killed as many as 2 million.
26 sie 2020 · This Week in China’s History: August 26, 1931. The floods that have devastated swathes of central China this summer remind us — not that there is often time to forget — that flood control has been a priority of Chinese governments for many centuries.
This book offers the first comprehensive history of the 1931 flood that struck the Yangzi and Yellow river basins, as well as the Grand Canal, affecting more than 50 million people, one of the worst floods in China of the twentieth century.
