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Two people were confirmed dead after downpours battered a plateau region in Southwest China's Yunnan province, the local flood control authority said Friday.
China Development Bank said it had allocated 400 million yuan ($63.5 million) of emergency loans for disaster relief in Beijing, which experienced its heaviest rainstorm in 61 years.
Beijing city leaders led by Party chief Guo Jinlong and acting mayor Wang Anshun mourned victims killed in the July 21 downpour.
Beijing's top official said Friday the disastrous rainstorm exposed many loopholes in urban planning, construction, infrastructure and emergency management.
In a Beijing district battered by Saturday's downpour, soldiers with mud on their pants and shovels on their shoulders arrived at a primary school in Beicheying village on Wednesday.
About 160 historical sites, including the Peking Man World Heritage Site at Zhoukoudian, were damaged in storms that lashed Beijing on Saturday.
The 20-hour storm that hit Beijing on Saturday swept away the dreams of many migrant workers who came to the capital for opportunities.
On Wednesday afternoon, Yu Guirong, 60, shoveled mud out of her makeshift tent, one of the 30 tents in a small primary school campus in Beicheying village of Beijing's Fangshan district.
City governments across China are hastily ordering checks on drainage systems, and several have unveiled plans for extensive upgrades, following the fatal floods in Beijing.
Thirty-two people were confirmed dead, and another 20 were still missing after rainstorms hit North China's Hebei province over the weekend.
The Beijing Municipal Administration of Cultural Heritage announced the results of a damage assessment conducted on Beijing cultural heritage sites after Saturday's torrential rain.
An overnight rainstorm on Wednesday flooded a section of the railway linking Beijing with Baotou city, northern Inner Mongolia autonomous region, deferring 24 train trips.
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