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  • 2021-07-29 (xsd:date)
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  • Misleading video sparks criticism of China broadcaster over rainfall comments (en)
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  • A Chinese broadcaster has been attacked on social media after posts shared thousands of times claimed she said China responded very well to devastating floods which killed dozens of people in central China's Henan province. However, the claim is false; she was in fact speaking before the Henan floods struck in July 2021, and was referring to torrential rainfall in North China. There are countless deaths and injuries in the rainstorm in Henan, while CCTV News Broadcast programme’s broadcaster Hai Xia: To me, they responded very well this time! reads the simplified Chinese title of a YouTube video posted on July 20, 2021. The footage shows Hai Xia, a news anchor at China's state-owned broadcaster CCTV, presenting in a short video programme for CCTV's social media accounts. The logo of CCTV's official account on Chinese video-sharing platform Douyin is visible in the corner. These two days, torrential rain has hit many parts of North China. Did you see any differences in the way the cities responded to it? To me, they responded very well this time, she said in Mandarin. She praises various services, such as the meteorological department who issued a series of forecasts and fire rescue teams who went all out to do a good job. The video then cuts to various short clips that emerged during flooding in central China's Henan province , including people wading through waist-high water in the street and commuters trapped in a flooded metro carriage. Screenshot taken on July 26, 2021, of the misleading YouTube post ( AFP) The death toll from floods in central China's Henan province rose to 71 on July 27. Torrential downpours dumped a year's rain in just three days on the hardest-hit city of Zhengzhou, flooding subway cars and trapping more than 500 commuters during rush hour on July 20. Similar posts claiming the presenter was talking about the Henan floods were shared here on Twitter and here on Facebook. However, the claim is false. The news anchor was not talking about the floods in Henan, which happened after the video was broadcast. While the original video was no longer available on CCTV's Douyin account, a keyword search found the same footage here published by the China Meteorological Administration on July 13, one week before Henan was struck by deadly floods. Furthermore, Henan is not in North China, the region she mentions in the Douyin video. North China includes Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi and Inner Mongolia. The region saw extreme rainfall in mid-July, while Henan also reported record-breaking daily rainfall. (en)
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