Typhoon Hagupit left 17 people dead and two others missing in the southern Chinese city of Yangjiang, the local government said on Friday.
Hagupit-triggered floods and high winds affected more than 1.5 million residents in Yangjiang, Guangdong Province.
The local government now faces the task of evacuating 100,000 people facing natural disasters in the wake of the typhoon, a city government spokesman said.
The typhoon also destroyed power facilities, inundated crops, toppled houses, killed livestock, capsized ships and damaged embankments, he said. Direct economic losses were estimated at 2.46 billion yuan .
"Currently, more than 8,000 people are repairing the damaged power facilities," he said.
"For those residents whose houses were leveled, the city government will give an allowance of 5,000 yuan to each family to rebuild their homes, in addition to the same amount of money granted by the provincial government."
According to the National Meteorological Observatory, Hagupit, the 14th strong typhoon this year, landed in Maoming, Guangdong on Wednesday morning.
It left China on Thursday morning and moved into Vietnam, downgrading to a severe tropical storm as it did so.
Source: Xinhua
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Construction of Lanzhou-Chongqing railway trunk kicks off
China began construction of the 820 kilometer-long Lanzhou-Chongqing railway here on Friday.
The railway connects Lanzhou, the capital city of northwestern Gansu Province, with southwestern Chongqing Municipality, and will cost 77.4 billion yuan .
After six years of construction, the project will shorten the previous time of rail travel from 17.5 hours to 6.5 hours. Its annual freight capacity stands at 100 million tonnes.
Zhang Dejiang, Chinese vice premier, met construction workers after the cornerstone-laying ceremony. He told them: "The building of the Lanzhou-Chongqing railway plays a crucial role in improving the transportation efficiency and pushes forward the country's western region development program."
The railway runs through resource-rich Shaanxi Province and southwestern Sichuan Province.
"Its operation will help people along the railway line to escape poverty and build a relatively well-off society," he added.
Source: Xinhua
The railway connects Lanzhou, the capital city of northwestern Gansu Province, with southwestern Chongqing Municipality, and will cost 77.4 billion yuan .
After six years of construction, the project will shorten the previous time of rail travel from 17.5 hours to 6.5 hours. Its annual freight capacity stands at 100 million tonnes.
Zhang Dejiang, Chinese vice premier, met construction workers after the cornerstone-laying ceremony. He told them: "The building of the Lanzhou-Chongqing railway plays a crucial role in improving the transportation efficiency and pushes forward the country's western region development program."
The railway runs through resource-rich Shaanxi Province and southwestern Sichuan Province.
"Its operation will help people along the railway line to escape poverty and build a relatively well-off society," he added.
Source: Xinhua
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