80m yuan to aid provinces in flood
The finance and emergency management ministries on Monday earmarked 80 million yuan ($12.4 million) to aid disaster relief in flood-ravaged parts of Shanxi and Shaanxi provinces.
China's top disaster relief authorities on Sunday activated the lowest level of emergency response after persistent rains pounded large parts of Shanxi, a coal producer and a major grain growing area, over the National Day holiday.
The damage in Shaanxi was mostly confined to Weinan, a city of 5 million people on the border with Shanxi.
Authorities in Shanxi said 1.75 million residents have been affected by flooding and other rain-induced disasters and 121,000 people have been evacuated.
The rain has also caused the collapse of about 17,000 homes and varying degrees of damage to 190,000 hectares of autumn grain crops.