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People Nationwide Donate to Blizzard-hit Inner Mongolia
Zhou Weide, vice-chairman of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Regional government, Monday accepted 1.2 million yuan (about US$144,000) and one million Hong Kong dollars and 4,000 sets of underwear from the State Development Bank and other companies in the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.
Xilin Gol, Hulun Buir, Hinggan leagues and Tongliao and Chifeng cities in Inner Mongolia have been attacked by blizzards since the end of last year, the most serious ones in the past four decades. Twentynine people have frozen to death and over 800 others injured in the region in north China.
On hearing the news, local governments, companies and individuals in other parts of the country have donated over 7.75 million yuan of cash, one million Hong Kong dollars, and cloths, quilts, instant noodles, underwear and gasoline to the blizzard- attacked region, helping the people there to weather the hard times.
The snowstorms have devastated 31 county-level administrative areas, affecting 1.64 million people, 24.2 million hectares of grassland and 22.3 million head of animals with 220,500 of them dead due to the exposure to the cold weather.
The Xilin Gol League, hit most seriously by the snowstorms, decided to help local people sell more of their livestock to reduce the losses caused by the snowstorms. People in the disaster- torn areas have also been organized to start self-help production projects to overcome adversity through greater production.
Hao Yidong, vice chairman of the regional government, said that there are more difficulties ahead, though the rescue work has been basically completed.
There are still four months to go before the state of alarm over the snow disaster is dismissed and the disaster-relief work will continue for another 80 days.
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