China News Service, Taiyuan, October 10 (Yang Peipei) Recently, Shanxi has experienced continuous large-scale heavy rainfall, and many places have suffered severe rain and waterlogging disasters, which have severely affected the safety of people's lives and property and industrial and agricultural production.
In the past few days, government departments have issued disaster relief funds, and charity departments and enterprises have successively donated funds to help Shanxi fight floods and restore production and life.
The reporter learned from the Shanxi Provincial Department of Finance on the 10th that Shanxi issued an emergency relief fund of 50 million yuan (RMB, the same below) to fully support local governments in flood prevention and disaster relief work to minimize the loss and impact caused by the disaster.
Among them, 20 million yuan will be used for emergency transfer and resettlement of disaster-stricken people, transitional life assistance, restoration and reconstruction of damaged houses, and relief payments to the families of those who have died due to the disaster; 20 million yuan will be used to support farmland drainage and pollution reduction in the hardest-hit areas , Repair of damaged farmland water conservancy facilities, materials and materials needed to restore agricultural production, etc.; 10 million yuan will be used for rush repairs of water-damaged projects and facilities.
On the same day, the Red Cross Society of China urgently allocated 1.99 million yuan to rescue the disaster-stricken areas in Shanxi, including quilts, jackets, and tents.
A few days ago, the disaster relief team of the Red Cross Society of Shanxi Province went to Xinjiang County, Yuncheng City, and Qingxu County, Taiyuan City, which were severely affected, to carry out disaster assessment work, and allocated 200,000 yuan each for disaster relief to the two places.
In addition, the Shanxi Provincial Red Cross has announced special donation channels.
As of 24:00 on October 8, the Shanxi Provincial Red Cross Society has received a total of more than 40.2 million yuan in donations from various types of love.
It is understood that the Shanxi Provincial Red Cross is actively linking up with government departments, and donations are used for emergency rescue, post-disaster reconstruction and production restoration as soon as possible.
On October 9, China's National Disaster Reduction Commission and China's Ministry of Emergency Management launched a national level IV disaster relief emergency response in response to the recent severe floods in Shanxi.
In response to the disaster relief, many companies donated money to help Shanxi.
Tencent Charity Foundation announced on the 10th an initial donation of 50 million yuan, cooperating with China Red Cross Foundation, China Cultural Relics Protection Foundation, Shanxi Provincial Red Cross and other institutions to help local governments in disaster relief, people's livelihood protection, cultural relics and ancient construction rescue and post-disaster Reconstruction and other work.
On the same day, Xiaomi Charity Foundation announced a donation of 10 million yuan to Shanxi Charity Federation.
Shanxi’s recent severe flooding disaster has caused 1,757,100 people in 76 counties (cities, districts) in 11 cities in the province to be affected, 120,100 people were urgently transferred and resettled, 2,849,600 mu of crops were damaged, and more than 17,000 houses collapsed.
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