Flood discharged from an upstream barrier lake inflicted some Jinsha river-side villages in Diqing from November 14 to 15, 2018, causing heavy property loss in northwest Yunnan’s Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture.

O ne year later, reconstructing efforts are still going on in the Shangri-La townships of Touting, Wujing and Shangjiang, as well as the Jinjiang Town. Folks in disaster-stricken areas have rebuilt up most of their damaged homes, farmland and irrigation systems, trying to bring the areas back to life.

In Tuoding Township, more than 3.35 million yuan has been invested to clean up silt and garbage, while renovating roads, toilets, squares, parking lots, and pipe networks. On November 4, Tuoding Bridge over the Jinsha River opened to traffic.

"Part of my original adobe house collapsed in the flood, so I decided to rebuild a new one nearby. And I plan to move into my new house by the end of December," said Sun Weilan, a villager in Shangjiang Town, Shangri-La City. Sun is busy building his 200-square-meter new houses these days.

During the reconstruction in Shangjiang, 5.9 million yuan was granted to locals as compensation, and another 13.3 million yuan was invested for rebuilding 11 pumps. 7.2 kilometers of ditches in the fields has been renewed, while the Mugao Bridge is under reconstruction with an investment of 28 million yuan.

In Jinjiang Town, 175 households in six villages were affected by the flood, consuming a total of six million yuan in their reconstruction over the past year.

Source: Diqing Daily; trans-editing by Wang Shixue