---
title: "Tropical depression hits southern China two weeks after Typhoon Wutip"
description: "BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) - A tropical depression made landfall on China's island province of Hainan early on Thursday, the country's National Meteorological Centre said, bringing more rain to a region still reeling from Typhoon Wutip two weeks ago."
type: "NewsArticle"
publisher: "Daily Maverick"
site: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za"
section: "Newsdeck"
author: "Reuters"
author_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/author/reuters/"
canonical_url: "https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2025-06-26-tropical-depression-hits-southern-china-two-weeks-after-typhoon-wutip/"
published: "2025-06-26T05:33:25"
updated: "2025-06-26T05:33:26"
lang: "en-ZA"
word_count: 145
---

# Tropical depression hits southern China two weeks after Typhoon Wutip

> BEIJING, June 26 (Reuters) - A tropical depression made landfall on China's island province of Hainan early on Thursday, the country's National Meteorological Centre said, bringing more rain to a region still reeling from Typhoon Wutip two weeks ago.

By Reuters · Published 26 June 2025, 07:33 SAST · Updated 26 June 2025, 07:33 SAST

## Key points
- As a tropical depression saunters from Wenchang to Guangdong, it’s not just a weather event; it's a high-stakes game of “Will the Flood Defences Hold?”—with climate change as the unwelcome referee and millions of displaced citizens as the audience.
- A tropical depression is set to traverse Wenchang and the northeastern tip of Hainan before making a second landfall in Guangdong, gradually weakening.
- Climate change-linked storms and flooding are increasingly straining China's ageing flood defences, risking displacement and economic losses.
- The densely populated Guangdong province, along with Guangxi and Hunan, faces renewed challenges as the storm approaches.
- The region is still reeling from the aftermath of Typhoon Wutip, which caused five fatalities and widespread evacuations in June.

## Content

The tropical depression is expected to move from the city of Wenchang across the island's northeast tip, before heading back out into the South China Sea and making a second landfall in China's southern Guangdong province, state broadcaster CCTV said, gradually weakening along the way.

Extreme storms and severe flooding, which meteorologists link to climate change, increasingly pose major challenges for Chinese officials, as they threaten to overwhelm ageing flood defences, displace millions of people and cause billions of dollars in economic losses.

The storm will again test the flood defences of the densely populated Guangdong province, as well as Guangxi and Hunan further inland.

Five people died and hundreds of thousands of people had to be evacuated when Wutip roared through the region from June 13 to 15, dumping record rains and damaging roads and cropland.

(Reporting by Joe Cash; Editing by Jamie Freed)