According to the reports from the Wuzhou hydrological station on the river, the water level of Xijiang's mainstream dropped to 19.47 meters Tuesday morning, 1.71 meters lower than that on Monday.

Though it is still 2.17 meters above the warning level, the official acknowledged the flood was already under control.

Located at the juncture of Guangxi and the southern province of Guangdong, Wuzhou is one of China's key flood-control cities, as more than 90 percent of the rivers in Guangxi flow by it.