As of 3:29 PM on July 6th, the water levels inside and outside the breach of Lake Dongting's levee have leveled out. Work to seal the breach has started, and the rescue team is constructing the breach from both ends towards the middle. A levee on Lake Dongting in Huarong County, Hunan Province, began to leak on Friday. Nearly 6,000 people in the affected region have been evacuated with no reports of casualties. More than 2,000 local relief workers and 610 boats have been mobilised for emergency rescue work in Huarong, with nearly 10,000 tonnes of sand and stones and 18 trucks deployed to seal the breach. President Xi Jinping has urged all-out rescue and relief works. A national rescue team consisting of 800 people, nearly 150 vehicles and 82 boats have been sent to the site. The financd central Hunan as a dyke breach in China’s second-biggest freshwater lake, Dongting Lake, has widened after floods. __________________ ShanghaiEye focuses on producing top-quality contents. Nobody knows SHANGHAI better than us. Please subscribe to us ☻☻☻ __________________ For more stories, please click ■ What's up today in Shanghai, the most updated news of the city https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MNjpE4hspSVry8dR555getN ■ Amazing Shanghai, exploring the unknown corners of the city, learning the people, food and stories behind them https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MMVTWr-zIXjsS4hhSQPmyes ■ What Chinese people's lives are like during the post COVID-19 period https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MPrPTmIirpfgETu6VKVESXe ■ Views of foreign scholars on China and its affairs https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MO9ua_nSK6slRPdUl-ovjRe ■ Foreign faces in Shanghai, people living in this city sharing their true feelings https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MP0vJDSw23_1MCPJhAfGbiG ■ Mini-docs showing why China is the country it is today https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeyl7CQ2A5MOreRu2AbZ3ziIUyCcdBLwX __________________ ☎Leave us messages if you have any suggestions or questions! Thank you! Show more