Chinese internet heavyweight ByteDance announced on Wednesday a 100 million yuan ($13.9 million) donationxa0to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, as torrential rainstorms have caused flood and geological disasters in the region.

中国互联网巨头字节跳动周三宣布向京津冀地区捐赠1亿元人民币（1390万美元），因为暴雨在该地区引发了洪水和地质灾害。

The GLC-36S active phased array radar is capable of carrying out multi-dimensional precision scanning of hazardous weather including typhoons, rainstorms and thunderstorms to help researchers capture data about the meteorological phenomena's complex inner structure.

GLC-36S有源相控阵雷达能够对台风、暴雨和雷暴等危险天气进行多维精确扫描，帮助研究人员捕捉有关气象现象复杂内部结构的数据。

Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Chinese social media platform Weibo the company is making a donation to help affected communities in Shanxi province, which suffered from heavy rainstorms recently.

Global sportswear market leader Adidas donated 20 million yuan ($3.1 million) in cash and supplies to North China's Shanxi province, which suffered from heavy rainstorms recently.

Many places in the province were recently hit hard by torrential rainstorms and floods, which battered the region and affected millions.

Coca-Cola China's employees in Zhengzhou were also hit by the nonstop rainstorms as Swire Coca-Cola Zhengzhou plant was also seriously flooded.

The bumper harvest came despite extreme regional weather conditions, including record rainstorms in Henan province and periodical droughts in the northwestern areas, said Wang Minghua, an NBS official.

A heavy rainstorm hit central China's Henan province last month, one of the main transfer hubs of the China-Europe freight train services.

At a time when the country's short-term vacation rental industry is picking up due to the better control of COVID-19, the recent sporadic cases of COVID-19 in some parts of the country, as well as rainstorms, typhoons and other natural disasters have posed challenges to the short-term vacation rental sector.

For instance, some rural homestays in the suburbs and mountain scenic areas of Beijing have been closed due to rainstorms.

"Guizhou is a place with a lot of precipitation, but Yu does not have to worry about rainstorms or hail affecting the mushrooms at night because "they are just downstairs".

"Tropical islands usually face frequent flight delays, as they are easily impacted by typhoons and rainstorms, and some chartered flights on islands often change schedules.

The rainstorms may bring a risk of mountain torrents, geological disasters, and floods in some small and medium-sized rivers in the affected areas, said the conference, adding that there are uncertainties in the moving direction of Saola, the ninth typhoon of this year.

- Chinese Vice-Premier Zhang Guoqing called for efforts to minimize casualties and property losses during his inspection in Northeast China's Heilongjiang province as rainstorms and floods wreaked havoc in the country over the past week.

- Minister of Water Resources Li Guoying urged relevant departments to re-deploy, re-inspect and re-implement various preventive measures, and resolutely win the hard battle against typhoon-triggered rainstorms and floods.

Typhoon Doksuri, the fifth typhoon of this year, is much stronger than previous forecasts, as it has higher intensity, more sufficient water vapor and a wider range of impact, Li said at a meeting on deploying preventive measures against typhoon-triggered rainstorms and floods.

The meeting urged relevant management agencies and provincial water conservancy departments to do a good job in the prevention of rainstorms and floods in their respective river basins, and to evacuate people in dangerous areas to safety in advance.

China has activated emergency response measures to guard against flooding in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and ramped up rainstorm and flood control efforts in the Huaihe River basin, according to the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters on Thursday.

"By learning about the survey, we can improve emergency evacuation signs and routes to guide local governments with evacuating people in case of sudden disasters such as extreme rainstorms, floods, flash floods and mud and rock flows.