The month of April, 2023, was something of a record breaker for natural disasters in China. Some 7.94 million people were affected nationwide, while there has also been considerably more sandstorm activity compared to the same period in previous years.
2023 年 4 月，中国自然灾害创纪录。全国受灾人数达794万人，沙尘暴活动也较往年同期明显增多。
China’s Emergency Management Ministry, together with other relevant authorities, recently concluded their study into the national-natural-disaster situation in April, 2023, breaking down the recent surge in extreme weather.
中国应急管理部会同有关部门于近日完成了2023年4月全国自然灾害形势研究，打破了近期极端天气激增的局面。
Such comprised mainly wind and hail, drought, low temperatures and freezing conditions, together with floods, geological disasters, sandstorms, earthquakes and fires.
主要包括风雹、干旱、低温冰冻等，还有洪水、地质灾害、沙尘暴、地震、火灾等。
In other words, pretty much all mother nature has to throw at us.
换句话说，几乎所有的大自然都必须向我们扔来。
The results were seven deaths, 10,000 people resettled and over 500 collapsed buildings, with in excess of an additional 2,600 buildings severely damaged and 68,000 more sustaining general damage.
结果造成 7 人死亡、10,000 人重新安置、500 多座建筑物倒塌，另外 2,600 多座建筑物严重受损，另有 68,000 座建筑物遭受一般性破坏。
Some 731,200 hectares of crops were also affected, bringing direct-economic losses from natural disasters in China last month to ¥5.44 billion.
约73.12万公顷农作物也受到影响，上个月中国自然灾害造成的直接经济损失达54.4亿元人民币。
Looking across the country, wind and hail hit Hunan and Guizhou provinces in particular, with more pronounced sandstorm activity too. The phenomena together affected 1.069 million people nationwide, resulting in 5 deaths and losses of ¥1.6 billion. The sandstorms of 18-21 April reached a severe level, causing crop damage in north and northwest China.
纵观全国，湖南、贵州两省遭受大风冰雹袭击，沙尘暴活动较为明显。全国受灾人数106.9万人，死亡5人，损失16亿元。 4月18日至21日，沙尘暴达到严重程度，导致华北和西北地区农作物受损。
That part of the country also suffered from low temperatures and snow-related disasters, as China as a whole went through an unseasonably cold spell from 21-24 April. Some 1.327 million people in 11 provinces and regions, including Shanxi, Gansu and Shaanxi, were affected. As The Paper reports, those particular disasters had a direct-economic loss of ¥1.36 billion.
4月21日至24日，中国整体经历了反常寒流，该地区也遭受了低温和雪灾。山西、甘肃、陕西等11个省区132.7万人受灾。据澎湃新闻报道，这些灾害造成的直接经济损失达13.6亿元。
Then there was the southwest, which endured numerous floods and other geological disasters during four periods of heavy rainfall last month. Across the country, some 32 rivers experienced excessive flooding, affecting over half a million people in Hunan, Hubei and Fujian provinces in particular. That cost us ¥620 million.
然后是西南地区，上个月四次强降雨期间，遭受了多次洪水和其他地质灾害。全国约32条河流发生特大洪涝灾害，其中湖南、湖北、福建等省份超50万人受灾。这花费了我们 6.2 亿日元。
In Yunnan, Sichuan and other places, the problem wasn’t too much water; it was not enough of the stuff. The droughts therein impacted some 3 million hectares of crops and put 87,000 people in need of daily assistance. Nationwide, some 56 forest fires broke out in April, among which eight were grassland fires in Inner Mongolia.
在云南、四川等地，问题不在于水太多，而在于水太多。这些东西还不够。其中约300万公顷农作物受到干旱影响，87,000人需要日常援助。 4月份，全国共发生森林火灾56起，其中内蒙古草原火灾8起。
On the earthquake front, China experienced three last month with a magnitude of 4 or higher, with the biggest being the 4.6-magnitude quake which struck Baicheng in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on 7 April. On the plus side, that particular natural disaster brought about precisely zero economic losses, largely on account of the area being remote and undeveloped.
在地震方面，中国上个月经历了三起4级以上地震，其中最大的是4月7日袭击新疆维吾尔自治区白城的4.6级地震。从好的方面来说，这场自然灾害带来的经济损失恰好为零，这主要是因为该地区地处偏远且未开发。
