(ZHOU MI)

A primary school student in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, walks through the rain after school on May 9.

Downpours since May 8 and sequent floods had killed at least two people and forced the evacuation of more than 50,000 residents in Guangdong, Hunan and Jiangxi provinces and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in south and central China, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters said on May 11.

It also reported that 1,400 houses were destroyed and 15,000 hectares of cropland were inundated in the disaster.