[Two departments urgently allocated 240 million yuan to support five provinces in emergency rescue and relief work for natural disasters] September 7th: Recently, affected by Typhoon "Shadr", large-scale sustained heavy rainfall occurred in many places in southern China. The rainfall was extremely extreme, causing floods, geological disasters, casualties and house damage. In order to thoroughly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping on flood prevention and relief work, on September 7, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Emergency Management urgently allocated 240 million yuan in central natural disaster relief funds to support five provinces, including Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Yunnan, in carrying out flood prevention and relief work. In the emergency rescue and relief work for floods and geological disasters, we will focus on the relocation and resettlement of disaster-stricken people, emergency response such as danger elimination, transitional life assistance, and repair of damaged houses, etc., to effectively protect the basic lives of the disaster-stricken people, and promote the restoration of production and living order in the disaster-stricken areas as soon as possible. (CCTV News)