The death toll from the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province and its neighboring region rises to 69,225 as of Monday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement.
The number of people listed as missing and injured reached 17,939 and 374,640 respectively.
As of Monday noon, a total of 1,486,197 quake-affected people had been relocated.
Among the 96,538 hospitalized for injury, 91,995 had been discharged, the statement said.
The government spending on disaster relief and reconstruction had topped 64.4 billion yuan (about 9.4 billion U.S. dollars), including 57.41 billion yuan from the central budget and 6.992 billion yuan from the local budget.
According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, domestic and foreign donations had reached 59.27 billion yuan in cash and goods by Monday noon. Of this, 23.81 billion yuan had been forwarded to quake-hit areas.
About 1.58 million tents, 4.87 million quilts, 14.1 million garments, 2.85 million tonnes of fuel and 6.09 million tonnes of coal had been sent to the quake-hit areas, it said.
As of Sunday, relief workers had built 638,500 temporary houses and another 2,000 were being installed.
In the 96 hours ending Monday noon, five aftershocks between 4.0 to 4.9 magnitude, one between 5.0 to 5.9 magnitude and 781 aftershocks at or below magnitude 3.9 were monitored in the quake zone, according to the China Earthquake Administration.
A total of 23,308 aftershocks had been detected since May 12.
A total of 347,631 tonnes of grain and 9,435 tonnes of edible oil have been allocated to the quake zones from central reserves as of Monday, the statement said.
Of the 53,295 km of roads damaged in the quake, 52,530 km had been restored, according to the statement.
And 127,838 of the 138,960 business outlets damaged by the quake had been reopened, the statement read.
As of Monday noon, 164,028 quake-affected people had been organized to work outside of the quake zone, while another 654,583 people had found jobs in their hometowns.
Source:Xinhua
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