Raising 420 million yuan in emergency

The two departments emergencyly issued 420 million yuan to support local flood prevention and drought resistance

The reporter learned from the Ministry of Finance on the 18th that the Ministry of Finance and Emergency Management Department urgently issued 420 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds on the 17th to support local flood prevention and drought.

Among them, pre -allocated 210 million yuan to support 7 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) including Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing, Sichuan, Xinjiang, etc. to do a good job in drought resistance and relief, focusing on solving the problems of water difficulties for urban and rural residents; pre -dialing 210 million yuanIt supports 8 provinces (autonomous regions) such as Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Heilongjiang, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, and Gansu to carry out flood control and disaster relief work. Local coordinating emergency rescue and relief people.

As of now, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management have pre -allocated the local flood control funds of 1.3 billion yuan, of which 1 billion yuan of flood control funds and 300 million yuan in drought relief funds.The Ministry of Finance requires local financial departments to promptly allocate funds for central financial subsidies, effectively strengthen funding supervision, give full play to the benefits of funds, and fully support flood prevention and drought.

Source | Xinhua News Agency

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