Flooding triggered by Typhoon Maysak killed two people in Nanning, the capital of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, with roughly 48,000 residents evacuated and approximately 55,000 affected by floodwaters, according to Nanning's deputy mayor Wei Jiang, as reported by The Guardian on July 6, 2026. The figures originate from Chinese state media, as the Associated Press noted. A separate Deutsche Welle report cited an unnamed county where roughly 180,000 residents were affected and over 68,000 evacuated, suggesting the regional toll extends well beyond Nanning city proper.

Maysak first made landfall in Hainan province on July 3, 2026 — the first tropical cyclone to reach the Chinese mainland that year — prompting Hainan authorities to suspend flights and ferry services. It then crossed the Gulf of Tonkin, making a second landfall in Vietnam on July 5. Vietnamese state media reported that Maysak brought down trees and stripped metal roofing in Mong Cai, the northeastern border city that sits squarely in the path of storms tracking toward Guangxi. By the time the system's remnant moisture reached the Chinese interior, the infrastructure strain was already visible.

A Region Under Water

The flooding in Guangxi went well beyond Nanning. At Guigang — roughly 270 km northeast of the provincial capital — water levels at the local hydrological station reached 42 meters by 12:30 pm on July 6, according to China's Ministry of Water Resources. Street-level video verified by The Guardian showed vehicles submerged on a main road, the carriageway indistinguishable from the river. In Fangchenggang, on the coast near the Vietnamese border, verified footage showed a car swept down a street with floodwater reaching another vehicle's steering wheel. Waters overflowed or breached barriers at at least three reservoirs in Nanning alone.

Xinhua reported that China upgraded the flood emergency response for Guangxi to Level II on July 6 — the second-highest tier in the national grading system, reserved for severe events requiring substantial inter-agency coordination. A day earlier, on July 5, China's Ministry of Emergency Management had already dispatched two additional working teams to Guangxi to reinforce flood control operations, according to the Chinese government's official English-language site.

The Forward Threat: Super Typhoon Bavi

Even as rescue and drainage operations continue in Guangxi, Chinese meteorologists and emergency managers are tracking a second, more powerful system. Super Typhoon Bavi was crossing the Western Pacific on July 6, carrying sustained winds of up to 180 mph as it passed over the Mariana Islands — Guam, Tinian, Saipan, and Rota — according to the US National Weather Service. Chinese weather authorities, cited by Xinhua, warned that Bavi would bring strong winds and heavy rain to eastern China from July 9.

The sequencing matters operationally. Guangxi's soil is already saturated, its reservoirs stressed, and tens of thousands of displaced residents are not yet back in their homes. Chinese meteorologists are forecasting additional heavy rainfall across Guangxi, Guizhou, and Hunan in the days immediately following Maysak — before Bavi's outer bands even arrive. Those three provinces collectively hold a population exceeding 150 million people.

The broader pressure this creates for emergency management is structural. A Level II response requires provincial and central resources to move in parallel, and with two working teams already deployed, the Ministry of Emergency Management has limited additional surge capacity to commit to Guangxi before it must simultaneously assess Bavi's landfall track. Taiwan, which sits directly in Bavi's projected path across the Pacific, will be the first major land mass to absorb the full-strength system; the degree to which Bavi weakens over the island's Central Mountain Range will shape how much intensity it retains when it reaches the Chinese coast.

For now, the immediate priority in Guangxi is reservoir integrity. Three breaches or overflows in a single provincial capital during one storm is not a normal operational baseline. With another rainfall episode forecast before Bavi's arrival, engineers and local authorities face a narrow window to restore buffer capacity in those structures before the next hydrological load arrives.