Floods have forced people to flee from various regions in China

Hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated after heavy rains, floods and landslides in several provinces in southern and eastern China.

On Tuesday, both counties issued a flood warning as the river overflowed and the water level reached its highest level in 50 years. A video from the state press shows a car washed in the street and people rescued with ropes from a bulging river.

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The area has received the most rain since 1961, meteorologists say. The inhabitants of the community who lived on the banks of the rivers and in the low areas were forced to move to higher altitudes.

The city of Shaoguan in Guangdong Province is one of the worst affected cities and has received record rainfall since the end of May, so authorities have raised the flood warning to the highest level. The same alarm sounded in Qinyuan City, Guangdong Province.

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In the Low Pearl Basin surrounding Guangdong and Guangxi, the rains disrupted supply, production and transportation. Authorities in northeastern Jiangxi Province have issued a flood warning after 485,000 people were injured in nine districts, Xinhua reported. According to the Xinhua News Agency, the region suffered an economic loss of 470 million yuan ($ 70.2 million or 57 pounds). 43,300 hectares of crops were destroyed.

Local officials have warned that the situation will worsen in the future and that the water level in the Pearl River basin will continue to rise. According to the National Meteorological Center of China, the average rainfall in Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi provinces from early May to mid-June was 621 mm, the highest since 1961.

The rainy summer season in southern China is leading to frequent floods, but there are concerns that climate change will exacerbate the situation. Instead, many northern regions of the country are expected to experience unusually high temperatures, followed by rain.