China allocates 649 million yuan for flood response, disaster relief

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China's Ministry of Finance announced on Wednesday that funding worth 649 million yuan (about $91 million) had been allocated to support flood response and disaster relief efforts in multiple Chinese regions.

An aerial view shows a village get flooded in Bohai town, Mudanjiang city of northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province, August 5, 2024. /CFP

The central government funding, which was allocated on Tuesday, will specifically support typhoon and flood response, as well as disaster relief, in the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, as well as in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Chongqing Municipality, the ministry said in a statement.

The funding will be used to assist these regions in doing work such as repairing damaged water projects and facilities, as well as investigating and eliminating safety hazards, to ensure the safe operations of water projects and facilities during the main flood season, the statement said.

The Ministry of Emergency Management said on Monday that seven major river basins in China were bracing for the main flood season in August, a time when flood disasters may occur in multiple regions and water levels may rise beyond control lines in some rivers. It also warned that two or three typhoons would make landfall this month, affecting the nation's southern and eastern regions.

Source(s): Xinhua News Agency