Yugan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, east China - July 12-13, 2020 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of Fengfu Joint Embankment with flood-damaged dike slopes
2. Various of soldiers reinforcing damaged dike slopes with sacks of stones, mud
3. Various of workers reinforcing damaged dike slopes with sacks of stones, mud

Hukou County, Jiangxi Province, east China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
4. Aerial shots of cityscape, boats
5. Various of embankment, flood
6. Water level mark

Poyang County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, east China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
7. Aerial shot of vehicles loaded with rock to repair breach in Wenguidao embankment
8. Vehicle loaded with rocks, worker directing traffic
9. Vehicle unloading rock into breach
10. Bulldozer driving
11. Various of vehicles loaded with rock, workers

Armed forces soldiers and civilians worked hard to urgently repair a flood-damaged key embankment on Poyang Lake in east China's Jiangxi Province -- the largest freshwater lake in China -- over the past few days to protect the lives of the more than 37,000 people and the 4,267 hectares of farmland behind it.

The Fengfu Joint Embankment in Yugan County on Poyang Lake is one of the major embankments in the lake region. As incessant downpours have kept battering the area, the rising floodwater has drenched the mud and gradually washed away large parts of the dike slopes.

To prevent the floods from overtaking people's homes and property, the more than 100 armed forces soldiers, 300 local villagers and 400 Communist Party officials back by more than 20 sets of heavy machinery have been working almost around the clock to block the water seepages in the embankment using sacks stuffed with mud and stones.

In Hukou County, which is positioned at the criss-cross of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River, the water level exceeded 22.45 meters by 08:00 on Monday morning, a figure that is not far from breaking the historical 22.59-meter record of 1998.

So far, about 5,000 residents in the area have been evacuated. To brace for the flood, all seven major embankments in the area have been reinforced with a one-meter-high dike stretching about 13 kilometers along the shoreline.

Local officials say the rising water level seen in Hukou means that the work will be more toilsome in the lower reaches of the Yangtze river as the floodwater from Poyang Lake will merge into the Yangtze river.

In Poyang County, the Wenguidao embankment was severely breached by rising floodwater on Wednesday, with a breach of about 120 meters long.

As of 06:00 on Monday, more than 80 meters of the breach have been filled as vehicles loaded with rocks have been working non-stop to block the fissure. To ensure efficiency, officials have made arrangements for workers to take shifts to have their meals.

As some of the roads are narrow, unsurfaced muddy countryside paths that were not built for conditions like this, widening work has been conducted simultaneously to allow two vehicles pass the paths at a same time.