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Flood Risk Families Get New Homes
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| "Finally I can sleep untroubled at night," said Liu Yuanman, who settled down in a new village in Huarong County, Yueyang City in central China's Hunan Province in 1998 after leaving his old home in Xiaojicheng, on the banks of Dongting Lake. |
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Huge Gov't Funds Helping Flood-hit People
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| China's central government has thus far disbursed 4.1 billion yuan (about US$494 million) in relief funds as well as over 16,000 tents to areas affected by flooding since June. |
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Flooding in China Has Killed 1,532 People This Year
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| This year's flood season in China has thus far claimed 1,532 lives across the country, according to statistics provided by the Chinese Ministry of Civil Affairs on Wednesday. |
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Farmers Better off by Returning Land to Lake
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| They lost all their ancestral assets -- rice paddies, fish ponds and even houses, but their income nearly tripled in three years. More importantly, they have finally bidden permanent farewell to the ferocious floods that plagued them every summer. |
