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Southern China is facing floods and landslides as the area is experiencing the heaviest rainfall in decades.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes.
The rains have severely inflated waterways in the Pearl River Basin, endangering the transport of food and people. Residents living along the river banks have been asked to move to higher ground.
The average rainfall in Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi provinces between May and June reached 621 millimeters, the highest since 1961, according to the National Meteorological Center of China.
The Chinese have settled in schools turned into shelters and some tents set up on sports grounds.
Shaoguan city is among the most affected, officials have raised the red alarm, the city recorded record rainfall since the end of May.
The industrial city of Guangdong suspended teaching, office work and public transportation amid rising water levels and the threat of landslides.
In neighboring Jiangxi province, the homes of 500,000 people have been damaged by muddy rain that has flooded inside buildings.
The summer rainy season is always causing floods in southern China, but climate change seems to be making the situation worse. On the other hand, many areas in the north of the country are experiencing extremely high temperatures.
Across the globe, tropical storms are becoming more intense as a result of climate change, leading to increased flooding that threatens human and animal life and crops and groundwater.
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