The scene starts to get horrible as the train pulls into North Yuyao Railway Station.

Yuyao, a prosperous county-level city that ranked 10th in the country's 100 most powerful counties in 2012, has taken on a totally different look in the aftermath of the havoc wreaked by the flood.

More than 70 percent of the city was hit by severe flooding, as residents, left without enough food and clean water and without a place to live, have struggled to help themselves because the government has been slow to deliver relief supplies.