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Home rebuilding on track

(China Daily)
Updated: 2008-04-28 15:55

The rebuilding of homes in 10 provinces hit by heavy snow earlier this year is going smoothly, the Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) says.

The MCA and the Ministry of Finance have allocated 1.15 billion yuan (about $164 million) for house reconstruction.

Severe winter weather hit central and southern China during the first six weeks of 2008 and destroyed about 485,000 houses. The worst damage was in the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Qinghai and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

In Yunnan, which recorded snowfalls later than other areas, reconstruction work has started on about 18 percent of the houses, the ministry says. The figure was much higher in other nine province level regions: more than 60 percent of the homes were being rebuilt as of April 15, according to the ministry.