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Audit office reports over 7b yuan quake donations

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-31 19:27
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BEIJING - Chinese people and organizations had donated 7.04 billion yuan ($1.03 billion) in cash and goods to the Qinghai quake zone as of May 20, the National Audit Office (NAO) announced Monday.

Of all the donations, 473 million yuan had already been used for emergency rescue and relief work, said the NAO in a report on the monitoring of quake-relief funds coming through three central government departments, 15 social organizations and 31 provincial regions.

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The central government and Qinghai provincial government had allocated 905 million yuan for quake relief as of May 20, of which 360 million yuan had been used to support relief efforts, materials distribution and infrastructure repairs and 545 million yuan was left unused.

No discrepancies were found in the audits of quake relief funds at central government level, said the report.

The donations figures did not match those issued by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which was 5.51 billion yuan as of May 21, as the latter one only covered funds submitted to the central ministries, it said.

The 7.1-magnitude earthquake that hit Qinghai's Yushu prefecture on April 14 had left at least 2,200 people dead, with more than 100,000 homeless.