Nearly 80,000 people evacuated from their homes as torrential rain causes widespread damage in Chinese capital’s mountainous north

Emergency crews are racing to restore access and locate those missing as alerts remain in place across northern China.

Beijing’s reeling from catastrophic floods that killed 30 people—28 in Miyun district and two in Yanqing—as of July 29, 2025, with four more deaths in a Hebei landslide. Over 40,000 have been evacuated as the Miyun reservoir hit its highest level since 1959.