According to state media, heavy rain fell on Sangzhi, Shimen, and Yongshun counties, as well as Zhangjiajie City, over the weekend, forcing more than 3,000 people to evacuate.
Sangzhi recorded the heaviest precipitation this year, with most extreme precipitation arriving at 256 mm (10.07 inches) short-term from Saturday to Sunday, as per state telecaster China Focal TV.
It was the most broad and far reaching precipitation in Sangzhi starting around 1998, CCTV said.
China has been held by long stretches of downpours and floods in the midst of an abnormally wet summer. Beijing saw its heaviest rainfall in 140 years as a result of storms brought on by Typhoon Dokusri at the end of July, setting a new record for rainfall in China in more than a decade.
China's administration has called for additional insurances against flooding as Hurricane Saola presently makes it way across the South China Ocean, with figures anticipating that it should land at Guangdong region as soon as this Friday.
China's State Flood Control and Dry spell Help Base camp and the Service of Crisis The board coordinated a video gathering this previous Saturday, cautioning that weighty precipitation in many pieces of the nation might cause geographical debacles remembering mountain downpours and floods for a few little and medium-sized waterways, state media Individuals' Everyday revealed.
There is likewise vulnerability over Tropical storm Saola's way, said China Meteorological Organization, yet it will get weighty precipitation the beach front regions including Fujian and Zhejiang territories from Wednesday to Friday.
Local media reported on Monday that Fujian has initiated an emergency response to Saola, directing fishing boats in some waters to return to nearby harbors and directing all aboard personnel to evacuate ashore by noon on Wednesday.