Members of the armed police forces take a rest on a dike along Changjiang River while fighting floods in Poyang county, Jiangxi province, on Wednesday. More than 10 breached dikes in the county have been sealed since July. (FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY)
According to the administration, the rain belt will move northward in mid-July and hover over northern parts of the country for the first half of August.
Wang Zhihua, deputy head of the disaster relief and public service department of the administration, said that from July 20, there will be more rainfall in northern regions.
He said that the main rain belt will gradually move to the Yellow and Huaihe rivers, North China and then the northeast, raising precipitation in these areas by 20 to 50 percent more than the past month.
Rain in areas south of the Yangtze River will be reduced by 20 to 50 percent.
He added that for the next month, three or four typhoons are expected to be generated in the Northwest Pacific and the South China Sea, fewer than the five typhoons during the same period in previous years. For the next 10 days, the inactive low-pressure system in the tropical region will lessen the likelihood of a typhoon landing on the Chinese mainland.
