Residents wade through flood water along a street amid heavy rainfalls in Zengcheng, Guangdong province on May 23, 2014.
Flooding in China over the past week has left many dead and many more missing, leaving almost half a million people homeless. The seasonal rains have fallen especially hard on the country's manufacturing hub of Guangdong province near Hong Kong and more recently, on southwest China's Images of heavy flooding in China.
China's worst floods in recent history were in 1998, when 4,150 people died, most of them along the Yangtze River, China's mightiest.
Here is a medley of some of the most astounding images from the floods that has swept southern China.
Commuters and a pedestrian manoevering their way through floods water in Liling, central China's Hunan province after heavy storms hit the city on May 25, 2014.
A taxi is trapped by flood water that washed away parts of a road in Pingba county in southwest China's Guizhou province on June 3, 2014.
Affected people rowing a dinghy through flood waters in central China after heavy storms hit the city.
A child tries to ride a bicycle through flood waters in Liling city in Hunan province.
Residents make their way through a heavily-flooded street in Anshun city in Pingba county, southwest China's Guizhou province on June 3, 2014.
A van is seen surrounded by flood water in Anshun city in southwest China's Guizhou province.
Residents wade through flood water next to partially submerged houses amid heavy rainfalls in Zengcheng, Guangdong province.
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