In the wake of Typhoon Doksuri striking northern China in June and July, record rain has inundated Hebei Province and Beijing, with floods washing away bridges and highways among other substantial damage to infrastructure.
A 100-m-long bridge
collapsed in Hubei province as did an expressway bridge in Heilongjiang
province, sending two cars into the water, media outlets report. “The engineering behind Chinese bridges is very weak,” said one India-based project manager