Paramilitary policemen evacuate people in a flooded region in Wanzhou in southwest China’s Chongqing Municipality Thursday, July 16, 2020. Credit: Feature China/Barcroft Media via Getty Images In early July, high school seniors across China were scheduled to sit for the gaokao , the grueling two-day national exam that determines their college fate. But when torrential rain suddenly hit Anhui province’s Shexian county, streets turned into rivers, preventing local students from reaching their testing sites. Shop owners were also hit by the deluge. Wu Yongqiang told China One Day , a Tencent Media Chinese-languge blog, that he arrived at his tea shop to find his loose-leaf varieties steeping in muddy flood water—he estimated that 90 percent of his merchandise was ruined. Similar scenes of devastation have played out across China, particularly in the central Yangtze River Basin, over the last two months as the summer monsoon has unleashed record rains […]