UNITED AS ONE
In a muddy field close to Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake in the eastern province of Jiangxi, a squad of armed police officers were digging a drainage ditch under the scorching sun on July 18. Among them was Luo Jie, member of an armed police detachment in Fuzhou, Jiangxi, wearing an orange life jacket over a black T-shirt and mud-covered trousers.
Since torrential rain battered the area on the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in early July, Luo has carried out various tasks to fight the floods.
The Yangtze River basin has been drenched by record rainfall in
