In Fujian, heavy rain since Sunday triggered landslides and mudslides around Nanping, which caused two buses with 31 people on board to career into a flooded river.
Huang Xinmin, deputy secretary with the Nanping government, said seven passengers were rescued, six people were confirmed dead and 18 were missing.
In Garze Tibetan autonomous prefecture of Sichuan province, a landslide caused by heavy rain on Tuesday claimed 23 lives and injured seven.
According to the emergency office in Garze, 34 workers were sleeping in sheds at the construction site of the Jinping Power Station in Pengta township in Kangding when the landslide occurred and only four managed to escape.
As of Tuesday night, the heavy rain that has hit most of South China since Sunday has affected 639,000 people in Guangxi, Sichuan and Fujian and damaged 38,100 hectares of farmland, with direct economic losses of 830 million yuan, according to reports from the civil affairs bureaus in Guangxi, Sichuan and Fujian.