China allocates 309 million yuan for flood relief

China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) allocated relief funds totaling 309 million yuan (about 44.13 million U.S. dollars) to flood-hit regions, said the commission on Saturday.

The funds were part of the central government's budget investment for disaster relief and emergency subsidies, which would be used for restoring infrastructure and public welfare facilities in disaster-hit regions, including Anhui, Jiangxi, and Hubei Provinces and Chongqing Municipality, according to the NDRC.

With downpours continuing to wreak havoc across vast swaths of China since June, several regions in China have declared highest-level flood warnings, as incessant rain triggers landslides and inundates roads and farmland.

China's national observatory on Saturday renewed its yellow alert for rainstorms, warning of heavy of weekend rain in places including Sichuan and Chongqing in the southwest, Hubei and Hunan Provinces in central China.