Chongqing flooding considered among worst city has ever seen

Li visits heavily damaged homes, fields, assures help on the way

Premier Li Keqiang on Thursday encouraged Chongqing residents to rebuild flood-damaged homes as the city faces one of its worst floods in history.

Li, while visiting Shuangba village in Chongqing, said that President Xi Jinping's significant instructions on flood prevention and post-disaster reconstruction should be fully implemented, and the safety of people's lives and property should be soundly secured.

The entire village of 8,000 residents, alongside the Fujiang River, a branch of the Yangtze River, was hit by flooding and crops were destroyed.