Flooding caused by the heavy rains — which started a month earlier than normal — damaged more than 80,000 homes and damaging large swaths of cropland, affecting more than 10 million people across 13 provinces and cities, the State Flood Control and Disaster Relief Headquarters said on its website.
"South China has already entered its flood season, one month earlier than in past years. The biggest floods have yet to come," Sun Jun of the National Meteorological Center was cited as saying by the official Xinhua News Agency.
The areas include the provinces of Guangdong, Chongqing, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan and Zhejiang.
In some areas, such as Guangdong province, the thunderstorms have cut power lines, toppled homes and bridges, submerged roads and caused rivers to overflow, forcing the relocation of 145,000 people in less than a week, Xinhua said.
China's huge land mass means severe storms can cause floods in one region, while other parts of the country experience droughts.
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