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00:00Rescue operations were underway after unseasonably heavy rain caused rivers to overflow, triggering
00:07landslides in Yingde City.
00:09Guangdong province in southern China has been battered by powerful storms and unusually
00:15steady rainfall since Thursday.
00:18Guangdong is China's manufacturing heartland, home to around 127 million people.
00:25On Tuesday afternoon, authorities in the tech metropolis of Shenzhen issued a red alert
00:30for flash floods, landslides and cave-ins.
00:34More than 110,000 people have been relocated across Guangdong, according to Xinhua.
00:41Chinese media is also reporting that April has seen the most rainfall in recorded history.
00:47This farmer took shelter under an overpass after he and his neighbors fled their flooded
00:52village.
00:53He says the floods ruined his farm, causing more than 10,000 euros in damage.
01:00Nobody's paying attention to us.
01:01The government hasn't come.
01:03They did in previous years, but nobody came this year.
01:06In recent years, China has been hit by severe floods, grinding droughts and record heat.
01:13But authorities have learned to deploy quickly, making casualties much lower than in previous
01:18decades.