The Red Cross Society of China have allocated flood disaster relief funds and materials valued 14.48 million yuan until July 27 to flood-hit regions for disaster relief .
China’s flood control authorities said on Wednesday that floods this year had left 928 people dead and 477 missing all over China as of 9 a.m. July 28.
From July 12 to 27, RCSC have allocated respectively tints, family packages, quilts, drinking water disinfectants and environment disinfectants to the disaster areas in ChongQing Municipality, Hubei, Anhui, Guizhou, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan, Liaoning and Jiangxi provinces.
Red Cross branches in Hubei and Jiangxi provinces also have donated relief materials and funds to disaster areas, according to local branches’ report.
A disaster inspection group led by the RCSC Secretary-General Wang Rupeng visited the disaster areas in Hubei province from July 21-22.
Floods had affected a total of 134 million people in 28 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, resulting in direct economic losses of 176.5 billion yuan (26.04 billion U.S. dollars), said the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (SFDH).
A total of 875,000 homes had collapsed, 9.61 million people had been evacuated and 8.76 million hectares of crops had been flooded nationwide, according to the SFDH.
The SFDH statistics also showed that the direct economic losses caused by floods this year more than doubled the average level during the past ten years, and the number of homes that collapsed went up by 60 percent.
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