More than 760,000 people have been evacuated to safe places after continuous rainstorms and floods swept south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region since late last week, local floods control headquarters said Thursday.

More than 1,000 trapped school children were rescued and moved to safe places earlier this week in Baiwang Township, Hechi City, the headquarters said.

In Wuzhou, all people under threat of floods were relocated before flood crest of the Xijiang River came to the city.

Disastrous rainy weather hit northern and central parts of Guangxi since Saturday, causing water level of mainstreams of the region's water system to rise above warning lines.

So far, floods claimed 38 lives in the autonomous region, the headquarters said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 24, 2005)