The People's Liberation Army and armed police will send more troops to support flood control and disaster relief on the direct orders of Xi Jinping.
Wearing a camouflage raincoat to protect him from the downpour, Premier Li Keqiang called on soldiers and rescuers to secure the embankments along the Yangtze River on Wednesday morning.
Premier Li Keqiang called for better scientific planning and a greater sense of responsibility in flood prevention and control during a meeting with provincial leaders of flooded areas.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has ordered the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the armed police force to send more troops to support flood control and disaster relief in areas battered by rainstorms.
Heavy rain has left 128 people dead and 42 others missing in five days, figures from the Ministry of Civil Affairs showed on Tuesday.
Disaster relief will continue in China's flood-hit central and eastern provinces, though the heavy rains are expected to weaken on Wednesday, authorities said.
By the end of Monday, continuous rainfall from the past two weeks had left at least 34 people dead and 14 others missing in the province, Su Zhou in Beijing and Liu Kun in Wuhan report.
Flooding and deadly landslides closed highways and interrupted train and air travel as heavy rain in central and eastern China further raised the levels of the Yangtze River and its tributaries on Monday.
Torrential rains in central China's Hunan Province have disrupted train operations, a railway company said Monday.
China's meteorological authority on Sunday renewed its orange alert for heavy rain across much of the southern regions in the coming 24 hours.
Relentless rain continued to wreak havoc in several southern Chinese provinces Tuesday, disrupting train services, flooding highways and forcing thousands of people to evacuate their inundated homes.
Continuous rainstorms swept through a number of areas in China on Tuesday, soaking residents with renewed troubles.
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