Heavy rains that hit southern and eastern China have left at least 62 people dead or missing, while over one million residents have been evacuated, the government and state media said Sunday. Rains were expected to continue to pound southern China through Tuesday with water levels in major rivers threatening towns in Jiangxi and Guangxi provinces, the state meteorological bureau said. More than 1.27 million people have been evacuated in the hardest hit regions, with large swathes of farmland submerged and economic losses already amounting to over 10 billion Yuan (145 million dollars), it said. Prosperous Guangdong province was the hardest hit. Rains there left at least 28 people dead or missing, with flooding in the Pearl River delta the worst in up to 50 years, it said.