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Major Yangtze River tributary breaks record flood level

Days of torrential rain in central China's Hunan Province raised the water level of the Xiangjiang River, a major tributary of Yangtze River, to exceed its record flood level Sunday morning.
The water level in the section of the river in Changsha, capital of Hunan, reached 39.21 meters at 6:30 a.m., above the previous record of 39.18 meters set by a massive flood in 1998.
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