It also caused water on the toes of Leshan’s Giant Buddha, which was reported by state-run media outlet Xinhua that had not happened in at least seven decades.
The 233-meter-tall Buddha was carved from a hill on Mount Emei about 1,200 years ago and is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sichuan Province.
It usually sits comfortably above the water of the Yangtze, and tourists gather at its base.
But the area was closed Monday to visitors in response to the rising waters. Officials hope it will reopen later this week after safety assessments were conducted, she wrote on Chinese social network Weibo.
Summer abundance is not uncommon in the region, but recent months have caused some problems.
The broader Yangtze River basin – which covers Poyang Lake and stretches more than 3,900 miles from Shanghai in the east to the Tibetan border in the west – accounts for 70% of the country’s rice production.
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