A man wades through the water at a dock on the rising Yangtze River in Jiujiang, east China's Jiangxi Province, May 16, 2012. The water level of the Yangtze River's Jiujiang section rose to 16.95 meters on Wednesday, a rare phenomenon in this season. The water level rise was caused by continuing heavy rainfall in the past few days and flood water from the river's upper reaches. [Xinhua]