Beijing, June 25 (QNA) - China's State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters launched a Level-IV emergency response to flooding in Chongqing Municipality and Guizhou Province as the two southwestern regions brace for a new round of rainfall.

A team has been dispatched to Guizhou to assist with flood prevention and relief efforts in the province's Rongjiang and Congjiang counties, according to the headquarters.

China has a four-tier emergency response system for flood control, with Level I being the most severe, according to China's News Agency (Xinhua).

Due to recent rainfall, the upper reaches of the Liujiang River in Guizhou have experienced flooding, necessitating flood-prevention work in Rongjiang and Congjiang, the headquarters said.

Around 80,900 people had been evacuated by Tuesday afternoon in the southwestern province of Guizhou,

China is enduring a summer of extreme weather. Authorities in Beijing this week issued the second-highest heat warning for the capital on one of its hottest days of the year so far. Tens of thousands of people were evacuated last week in the central Chinese province of Hunan due to heavy rain. (QNA)