<span style="color: #222222;">China has evacuated 127,000 people in the southern province of Guangdong due to heavy rains. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The official Xinhua news agency today said rains affecting more than 1.2 million residents across 27 counties in eastern Guangdong have left two people dead and two missing. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Xinhua said rains also caused more than 1 billion yuan  worth of damage, including to 44,700 hectares of farmland.</span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">China is forced to evacuate hundreds of thousands of residents of flood-prone regions every summer.</span><br />''