About 1,000 people in three villages in east China's Jiangxi Province were forced to evacuate their homes Thursday after water spilling over two reservoirs flooded their homes.
As of Thursday, flooding has killed 594 people in China's 26 provinces since the beginning of this year, with 212 missing, inflicting direct economic losses of 120.2 billion yuan ($17.6 billion), the nation's flood control authority said Thursday.
Soldiers used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River in East China on Wednesday morning, to prevent flooding.
A massive flooding similar to the one in 1998 that killed thousands of people is likely to occur this year, if downpours continue to batter the upper and middle reaches of the Yangtze River, an official has warned. East: heavy rain in Anhui 
Central: Rainstorms in Hubei South: storm Conson in HainanSW: landslidesDike blast 'complete success' in E China
Rainstorms and floods sweeping through south China have left at least 118 people dead and 47 missing since July 1, said a statement on the Civil Affairs Ministry website Wednesday.
An estimated 7.86 million people were affected by the rainstorms in 90 cities and counties of Central China's Hubei province, with 25 dead, and two missing since July 3.
Authorities in east China's Anhui Province have ordered soldiers to partially dismantle four small dikes to allow flood waters to swamp farmland instead of spilling out of a dam and threatening a town with a population of 100,000.
Chinese soldiers Wednesday used explosives to blast part of a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River in East China, preventing the flooding of riverbank villages. East: heavy rain in Anhui Central: Rainstorms in Hubei South: storm Conson in Hainan SW: landslides
More than 10,000 people were forced to evacuate their homes in East China's Jiangxi province Wednesday morning after heavy rainfalls triggered flash floods and overtopping of three reservoirs, flood control authorities said.
Authorities in East China's Anhui province planned to blast a leaking dike on a swollen branch of the Yangtze River to prevent flood-waters inundating villages.
Rain-triggered landslides left 17 people dead and 44 missing in southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces Tuesday, local authorities said.
Seven people were dead and one more missing Tuesday after a landslide triggered by torrential rains in Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Garze in Southwest China's Sichuan province, said local authorities.
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