Typhoon Ragasa swept along the southern coast of China on Wednesday, bringing lashing rain, fierce winds and coastal flooding as it made its way toward landfall.

Datong’s success in disaster mitigation – and Super Typhoon Ragasa – put spotlight on China’s investment in climate-resilient infrastructure.

Extreme weather overseas can also cause indirect losses in China. A separate paper we published this year, looking at droughts, floods and storms between 2009 and 2019, found that 17 per cent of China’s attributable losses arose from incidents overseas, causing indirect losses of US$4 billion a year.