The Chinese government has allocated 166 million yuan or 21 million U.S. dollars to help regions mop up and rebuild after recent natural disasters.
The provinces and regions that will receive the money include Liaoning, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi and Hainan, which were hit by Kaemi and Prapiroon, the fifth and sixth typhoons of the year, and by floods.
The funds were allocated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Finance.
Typhoon Prapiroon lashed China's southern coast last week, killing at least 80 people. Before that, at least 35 people had fallen to Typhoon Kaemi.
But the storm season is not over. Super Typhoon Saomai, now sweeping east China's Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, has so far claimed at least 104 lives, left 190 missing and forced the evacuation of more than 1.7 million people. Direct economic losses were estimated at more than 11 billion yuan.
Vice Minister of Civil Affairs Dou Yupei is now in Zhejiang to inspect relief work. He is urging the local government to do the utmost to ensure people's safety and reduce losses to a minimum.
Typhoon Saomai had weakened into a tropical depression by Friday morning and it was continuing to lose force. According to Xu Yinglong, a senior engineer of China's Central Observatory, besides Fujian and Zhejiang, rainstorms and strong winds are forecast in Jiangxi, Hunan and Anhui Provinces.
"We predict that Typhoon Saomai will continue moving towards the west. It will mainly affect the northeast part of Jiangxi, the eastern part of Hunan, and the southwest part of Anhui. Heavy rain will fall in these areas."
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