Ministries allocate 412 mln yuan of disaster-relief fund to quake-hit Yunnan
www.chinaview.cn 2009-08-03 17:00:28   Print

    BEIJING, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- China's ministries of finance and civil affairs allocated another 412 million yuan (60.3 million U.S. dollars) to the quake-hit region of southwest China's Yunnan Province, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement on its website on Monday.

    The amount was given in addition to the 38 million yuan offered on July 10 to help reconstruct houses damaged by the 6.0-magnitude earthquake that shook the province on July 9.

    The earthquake killed one and injured 372. More than 18,000 houses collapsed and 75,000 were damaged.

Editor: Wang Guanqun
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