China's Ministry of Emergency Management reported on July 28 that the floods affected Jiangxi, Anhui, Hubei and other 27 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities). It said 5481.1 million people were affected, 158 people were killed and missing, 376 were transferred on an emergency basis and resettled; 41,000 houses collapsed and 368,000 houses damaged to varying degrees; the area of crops affected was 5283.3 thousand hectares, and the direct economic loss was 144.43 billion yuan. It also said that compared with the average of the same period in the past five years, the number of people affected by disasters increased by 23.4%, the number of people who died or were missing due to the disaster decreased by 53.9%, the number of emergency transfers increased by 36.7%, the number of collapsed houses decreased by 68.4%, and the direct economic loss increased by 13.8%.