The landslide Monday buried a workers` dormitory and an area the size of two football pitches under hundreds of thousands of tonnes of mud at the site in Luojiang village, near the tourist city of Guilin in Guangxi region, it said.
More than 200 police, firefighters and other rescuers were digging with the help of two excavators to find the missing workers.
The region was hit by heavy rain at the weekend, the report said. Guilin and the surrounding area is famed for its karst scenery of sheer limestone mountains.
Rain-triggered floods in neighbouring Guangdong province left two people missing and destroyed 379 homes, Xinhua said. (*)
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