Beijing: China's official media reports Due to flooding in the mountains surrounding the capital Beijing, 11 people have died and 27 are still missing.

Authorities have evacuated residents of vulnerable communities to school gyms as a result of days of heavy rain, according to state broadcaster CCTV. Train stations have also been closed. Homes have been flooded, roads have been destroyed, and cars have been stacked up.

For Beijing, where the climate is typically mild and dry, the amount of rain is extremely unusual. Numerous people have died as a result of flooding in other northern China regions that infrequently experience such heavy rain.

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Every summer, seasonal flooding affects a large portion of China, especially in the semitropical south. The worst floods in 50 years, however, have been reported in some northern regions this year.

Floods in the southwest of Chongqing claimed the lives of at least 15 people in early July, and 5,590 people in the far-northwestern province of Liaoning had to be evacuated. Rainstorms in Hubei, a province in central China, have left locals confined to their homes and cars.

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In 1998, China experienced its deadliest and most destructive floods in recent memory, killing 4,150 people, the majority of whom were located along the Yangtze River.

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In the central province of Henan in 2021, flooding claimed the lives of over 300 people. On 20 July of that year, a record amount of rain inundated the provincial capital of Zhengzhou, turning the streets into raging rivers and flooding at least a portion of a subway line.