page_title: 1935 Yangtze flood
hierarchical_section_title: 1935 Yangtze flood
caption_attribution_description: English: The underlying topographic maps used in this image come from the Demis Web Map Server, and are in the public domain. The world locator map is derived from :Image:BlankMap-World.png. I added the feature layers myself. &#8212;Papayoung ☯ 20:57, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
context_page_description: The 1935 Yangtze flood struck China during a decade of flooding, famine and social turmoil. It is considered to be the 5th deadliest flood in recorded history with a death toll of 145,000 and displacement of millions. As a result of the flood, millions of survivors were faced with many hardships. These problems ranged from displacement, injury, loss of property as well as food shortages and famine.
  Previously in 1931, after three years of drought, both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers experienced significant flooding. Known as the 1931 China Floods, it was considered to be the worst non-pandemic disaster of the century because of the millions of deaths it led to.
  Following this catastrophe, the Yangtze River flooded again in 1935 as a result of heavy rainfall occurring during the early summer. At the time, China had not yet fully recovered from the previous 1931 flood. As a result of this, the remaining flood relief infrastructure which included drainage reservoirs and floodwater channels were soon overwhelmed.
  The Yangtze River flooding primarily affected the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
context_section_description: The 1935 Yangtze flood struck China during a decade of flooding, famine and social turmoil. It is considered to be the 5th deadliest flood in recorded history with a death toll of 145,000 and displacement of millions. As a result of the flood, millions of survivors were faced with many hardships. These problems ranged from displacement, injury, loss of property as well as food shortages and famine.
  Previously in 1931, after three years of drought, both the Yangtze and Yellow Rivers experienced significant flooding. Known as the 1931 China Floods, it was considered to be the worst non-pandemic disaster of the century because of the millions of deaths it led to.
  Following this catastrophe, the Yangtze River flooded again in 1935 as a result of heavy rainfall occurring during the early summer. At the time, China had not yet fully recovered from the previous 1931 flood. As a result of this, the remaining flood relief infrastructure which included drainage reservoirs and floodwater channels were soon overwhelmed.
  The Yangtze River flooding primarily affected the provinces of Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu and Zhejiang. All of which were located in the middle to lower reaches of the river. In a manner similar to the flood of 1931, there had been a drought the previous year which had led to a grain shortage. The grain shortage was then prolonged by the 1935 floods because the existing crops and seed were washed away as approximately 1.5 million hectares of total farmland became flooded. The early summer flooding of the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River, also resulted in the rice shortage of 1935 because much of the rice-producing infrastructure of Hubei province was significantly damaged.
caption: Map of the Yangtze River
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