After weeks of raging in western and southern China, heavy rains are shifting to the east, devastating the provinces along the Changjiang River.

The eastern Chinese provinces along the Changjiang River, including Anhui and Jiangxi, have become new targets for flooding.

Since the end of June, heavy rain has been pouring on Sichuan and Chongqing in southwest China, as well as in Hubei province in the central part of the country, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate and damage more than 10,000 houses.

The China National Meteorological Forecast Center on July 9 warned that the southern part of the country would experience more heavy rains in the coming days.

Despite the government's efforts to bail out, many in the affected areas still have to wait, including Ruji, who lives in the town of Ta Gia Than in Jiangxi Province, eastern China.

Floodwaters have flooded the first floor of the Ruji family and are receding after the rain fell on July 9, but the Ruji family still has no fresh food, clean water or electricity to use.

"In our house, there was no meat stock, in the garden, the flood was immense," Ruji said, saying her family was living on canned food.

Video on social media in recent days shows a three-story house in Jiangxi swallowed by floodwaters, furniture floating on murky water, firefighters taking people from a window down to an evacuation place

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Flooding also affects the annual university entrance exam in China, which is held a month later than every year because of Covid-19.

Every few years, floods disrupt the lives of tens of millions of people living along the Truong Giang River, the longest river in Asia.