2.1554 billion yuan in agricultural disaster prevention and mitigation and water rescue funds allocated.

On August 3, reporters learned from the Ministry of Finance that the ministry, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the Ministry of Water Resources, has allocated 2.154 billion yuan for agricultural disaster prevention, mitigation, and water disaster relief funds. According to the introduction, the funds allocated by the three departments are aimed at the following: first, to support six provincesGuangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Guangdong, Chongqing, and Guizhouin carrying out post-disaster relief work for floods and earthquakes, including the repair of water conservancy infrastructure, to ensure the safe operation of water conservancy projects; second, to support five provincesLiaoning, Jilin, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Hubeiin disaster recovery work involving crop water and fertilizer management, replanting in barren land, livestock and fishery restocking, and repairing damaged facilities; third, to assist three provincesShanxi, Xinjiang, and Gansuin promptly implementing crop replanting and livestock restocking measures after floods and storm damage, to accelerate the recovery of agricultural production; fourth, to focus on the connection between prevention and rescue, supporting 13 provincesHebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Jiangsu, Anhui, Jiangxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Xinjiang, and Sichuanas well as the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and the Beidahuang Agricultural Reclamation Group in implementing autumn crop disaster prevention measures such as spraying operations, to help achieve a bumper harvest of autumn crops and overall grain production for the year.