Ten percent of the municipal budget will be set aside, and the purchase of new official vehicles is forbidden this year, in order to support quake-hit areas, announced Han Zheng, mayor and deputy secretary of the Shanghai Municipal committee, who presided over a routine government meeting on May 26.
He said that every penny saved will be provided for the relief work in quake-hit areas; and calls on the city's 19 districts and counties to set aside 5% of regular government expenditures for earthquake relief.
By People's Daily Online
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