High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 2011 China floods are a series of floods from June to September 2011 that occurred in central and southern parts of the People`s Republic of China. They were caused by heavy rain that inundated portions of 12 provinces, leaving other provinces still suffering a prolonged drought, a total of over 36 million people have been affected, killing at least 355 and with direct economic losses of nearly US$6.5 billion.