China's high-tech anti-flood efforts show innovation strengths
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China's inland Henan Province has been severely hit by torrential rains and floods since mid-July, with at least 302 people dead and a total of 14.53 million people affected (data updated on August 2). The heavy downpours in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, surpassed the extremum of hourly rainfall in record.
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Shortly after the flood occurred, Fengyun-series satellites developed by China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) have been put into use to acquire space-based observation data for real-time situation analysis and subsequent disaster assessment.
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Technology not only supports poverty alleviation, green development and civil infrastructure, but also underpins the social and economic progress, not to mention its immense contribution to combating the COVID-19 pandemic, as China successfully isolated the world's first virus strain, completed viral genome sequencing, formulated and applied a billion doses of vaccines, and exported nearly half of its production to help over 100 countries.
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