NANCHANG, June 10 (Xinhua) -- About 728,000 people in east China's Jiangxi Province have been affected as of Tuesday afternoon due to rain-triggered floods, the provincial emergency management office said.

The rainstorms started on June 2 and have forced 47,000 people to evacuate, damaged 42,300 hectares of crops, and toppled 237 houses. It caused a direct economic loss of 720 million yuan (about 101.7 million U.S. dollars), according to official statistics.

The weather department forecast another round of significant rainfall on Tuesday and Wednesday in the province.

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Aerial photo taken on June 9, 2020 shows the Ganjiang River in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province. Water level of the Nanchang section of the Ganjiang River has been rising due to continuous rainfalls for days. On June 7, local maritime authorities began to impose traffic control on the river. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)[/caption]

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="900"] Aerial photo taken on June 9, 2020 shows the Ganjiang River in Nanchang, east China's Jiangxi Province. Water level of the Nanchang section of the Ganjiang River has been rising due to continuous rainfalls for days. On June 7, local maritime authorities began to impose traffic control on the river. (Xinhua/Zhou Mi)■[/caption]