英语文摘:Hundreds of thousands evacuated after flooding at China-DPRK border

In Dandong, where 94,000 people were relocated, the city government spent roughly 1 million yuan to feed the displaced residents.

Li Lingyu, an official with the city's service sector committee, said the city's stockpile of food and water was sufficient and no price speculation was reported. Bakeries were specially ordered to operate at full capacity to ensure a supply of fresh bread, Li said.

In several temporary shelters, Xinhua reporters saw biscuits, bottled water and sausages being sent to the flood survivors at regular intervals.

"We have meals and everyone can get two bottles of water a day," said Sui Yanfang, from the worst-hit Gulouzi Village. "Of course it was more comfortable at home. But here, we have food, we have water, and that's enough for now."

Local officials said the latest flooding has caused 361 houses to collapse and cut transportation, communications and power supplies in some areas. The length of the dike breaches have reached 149.6 kilometers.

Torrential rains started to pound Liaoning Province Thursday at midnight with precipitation of as much as 651 mm in the worst- hit region. In most parts of the Yalu River basin the precipitation ranged from 200 mm to 400 mm.

Besides the enormous rainfall, a reservoir under repair in the upper reaches of the Yalu River also intensified the flood relief pressure in the lower reaches, as the reservoir could not function.