BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Most parts of China would experience cold weather and precipitation during the next week, forecast of the country's central observatory said Saturday.

    Northeastern parts of China were to embrace lower weather and scattered precipitation during the period, which would help ease the drought plagued the region, said the National Meteorological Center.

    Moderate or heavy rains would sweep most parts of south China. Some regions south to the Yangtze River and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region would experience rain storm or strong convective weather.

People walk on the street in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, June 5, 2009. A heavy rain cooled the hot weather in Hefei on Friday evening

On Sunday, most parts of Sichuan Province, western and northern Chongqing, southwestern Yunnan and Guangdong provinces would be hit by heavy rain or rainstorm. Strong convective weather was to hit these regions, resulting in strong wind, thunder storm or hails.

    According to statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs Friday, storms sweeping five provinces in central and east China killed 27people and damaged more than 341,000 hectares of crops.