{"id":73159,"date":"2025-07-30T13:25:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/after-the-flood-beijing-residents-left-to-count-the-cost-with-little-state-support"},"modified":"2025-07-30T13:25:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T04:25:18","slug":"after-the-flood-beijing-residents-left-to-count-the-cost-with-little-state-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73159","title":{"rendered":"After the flood: Beijing residents left to count the cost with little state support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those affected by flooding that killed 30 people in China\u2019s capital have no insurance while official support is limited<\/p>\n<p>Wang Rongying was lying in bed at 6pm on Monday evening when her phone started pinging with messages. Neighbours said that the heavy rainfall Wang could hear outside was starting to cause the water levels on the street to rise to worrying levels. When she opened her front door to see for herself the flood water came rushing in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so scared \u2026 never since the 1980s have I seen such heavy flooding. We didn\u2019t receive any warning in advance,\u201d Wang said, surveying the soaked remains of her two-storey home in Miyun, a district on the outskirts of Beijing that was hit by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/29\/china-floods-flooding-beijing-thousands-evacuated\">heavy floods on Monday evening<\/a>. By midnight, 28 Miyun residents were reported to have died.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/30\/after-the-flood-beijing-residents-left-to-count-the-cost-with-little-state-support\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of those affected by flooding that killed 30 people in China\u2019s capital have no insurance while official support is limitedWang Rongying was lying in bed at 6pm on Monday evening when her phone started pinging with messages. Neighbours said that th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,455,313],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-extreme-weather","category-flooding"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73160,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73159\/revisions\/73160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}