Heavy floods have affected not only people in the central and southern provinces but also the animals.

More than 6,000 hogs were stranded by floodwaters at a pig farm in Shucheng county, Anhui province. When rescuers arrived at the farm on Tuesday, the pigs had been trapped in inundated pens for more than 20 hours.

Li Xiaobo, the farm's manager, said that more than 2,000 pigs had been rescued by Thursday night, while some were butchered on site because transportation was inconvenient and there are not enough places to accommodate them all.