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Funds allocated for flood response work

China has announced the allocation of 496 million yuan ($69.6 million) from the natural disaster relief fund to assist flood control efforts across a broad swath of the country. The emergency funds were jointly allocated by the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management, the Ministry of Finance said in a statement released on Thursday. The new funds will be used to support flood and disaster control work in the provinces of Zhejiang, Anhui, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Guangdong, and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.

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