Heavy rains in southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, while more than one million residents have been evacuated, the government and state media have said.
Rains were expected to further pound southern China in the coming days, with rising river levels threatening towns in Jiangxi, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces.
According to the civil affairs ministry, at least 55 people have been killed and seven others were missing following torrential rains in nine provinces over the past week.
More than 1.27 million people have been evacuated in the hardest-hit regions, with large swathes of farmland submerged.
Almost 18 million people had been affected by flooding while more than 141,000 homes had been wrecked or damaged.
State television showed people rowing boats in the middle of towns in flooded areas, while in rural areas farmers frantically filled sand bags to block swollen rivers from spilling their waters onto croplands.
The rains have washed away roads across the nine provinces and many areas have been hit by landslides.
Guangdong province was the worst affected.
Rains there left at least 28 people dead or missing, with flooding in the Pearl River delta the worst in decades.
The Guangdong government issued an emergency flood alert throughout the province.
The government had dispatched 10 special boats to Changle city, one of the worst-hit areas in Guangdong, where up to 100,000 people were being evacuated.
In parts of Guangdong, up to 415 millimetres of rain fell in a 24-hour period from Friday to Saturday, while the weather dumped up to 451 millimetres in parts of neighbouring Fujian province.
