Special report: Reconstruction After Earthquake

    BEIJING, July 8 (Xinhua) -- The death toll of China's major earthquake increased one from Monday's figure to 69,197 as of Tuesday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement on Tuesday.

    The number of the injured and the missing still stood at 374,176 and 18,379 respectively after the 8.0-magnitude quake jolted southwestern Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.

    As of Tuesday noon, 96,440 injured people had been hospitalized and 87,713 have recovered and left hospital. There are still 6,079people in hospital, the statement said.

    The government disaster relief fund had reached 55.057 billion yuan (about 8.04 billion U.S. dollars), including 49.748 billion yuan from the central budget and 5.309 billion yuan from the local budget.

    Domestic and foreign donations had reached 56.78 billion yuan in cash and goods, of which 20.454 billion yuan had been forwarded to the quake-hit areas.

    About 1.58 million tents, 4.87 million quilts, 14.1 million garments and 1.8 million tons of fuel oil had been sent to the quake-hit areas, it said.

    As of Monday, relief workers had built 439,600 temporary houses and another 22,100 were being installed, while the materials for 48,400 of such shelters had arrived in the affected areas.

    In the 24 hours ending Tuesday noon, 173 aftershocks at or below magnitude-3.9 were monitored in the quake zone, according to the China Earthquake Administration.

    A total of 16,373 aftershocks had been detected since May 12.

    As of Tuesday noon, of the 53,295 km of roads damaged in the quake, 52,408 km had been restored, according to the statement.