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Four people were killed in a landslide in Chungou village of Xianfeng county, Hubei province, local authorities reported on Wednesday afternoon.

Despite the increase risk of fires due to climate change, China has seen a sharp decline in the number of forest and prairie fires, thanks to its intensified efforts to enhance prevention work, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

Wang Xiangxi, minister of emergency management, has called for better management of welding operations after a deadly factory fire, suspected to have been caused by such an operation, left 38 dead and two injured in Henan province.

Over 300 firefighters from Yunnan Province left Chongqing after all open flames of the wildfires that broke out in Chongqing recently had been put out.

The firefighter team from Wuhan joined rescue efforts to drain the rainwater out of the subway in Zhengzhou, Henan Province.