Some quake-rebuilding funds still unspent
By Zha Minjie |
March 31, 2012, Saturday
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SOME 278 million yuan (US$44 million) earmarked for rebuilding northwest China's Yushu County, struck by a magnitude-7.1 earthquake in 2010, has gone unspent because of slow construction, China's audit authority reported yesterday.
Many residential building projects were postponed or slowed down at Yushu in Qinghai Province.
The authorities said much of the city's infrastructure "has formed with the finish of thoroughfares, water supply and a waste-processing system."
The county was struck by the earthquake on April 14, 2010, that killed 2,220 people and caused widespread destruction in cities and rural areas.
The reconstruction involves more than 1,500 projects with a total investment of 31.7 billion yuan.
By last October, 122 projects had been completed and other 908 had begun, the China Audit Office said.
It conducted the investigation from May to October last year, covering about one-third of the reconstruction investment amount.
The Qinghai provincial government said it had urged the start of road construction and other delayed projects. The traffic authorities have allocated 170 million for that work to get finished, said officials.
The reconstruction of rural household buildings has outpaced the urban ones, according to the report. By late last year, 21,294 rural households were finished and some residents began moving in, completing the target. But only 43 percent of the 11,919 planned new urban residences were finished by last year, far behind schedule.
Meanwhile the report also noted that only a few safety tasks have been done, leaving risks. The sewage system in Jiegu Town, an aged town which suffered great losses in the quake, is still unfinished and the waste is still washed directly into rivers, said the report.
How the money and goods are used for the disasters were under close scrutiny after a recent report that said some disaster-relief supplies directed to help in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake have been left unopened for four years, raising concerns of waste and improper management.
But government officials said the families affected by the Sichuan quake have gotten everything they needed from the relief efforts, and that some of the goods are meant for long-term use.
Many residential building projects were postponed or slowed down at Yushu in Qinghai Province.
The authorities said much of the city's infrastructure "has formed with the finish of thoroughfares, water supply and a waste-processing system."
The county was struck by the earthquake on April 14, 2010, that killed 2,220 people and caused widespread destruction in cities and rural areas.
The reconstruction involves more than 1,500 projects with a total investment of 31.7 billion yuan.
By last October, 122 projects had been completed and other 908 had begun, the China Audit Office said.
It conducted the investigation from May to October last year, covering about one-third of the reconstruction investment amount.
The Qinghai provincial government said it had urged the start of road construction and other delayed projects. The traffic authorities have allocated 170 million for that work to get finished, said officials.
The reconstruction of rural household buildings has outpaced the urban ones, according to the report. By late last year, 21,294 rural households were finished and some residents began moving in, completing the target. But only 43 percent of the 11,919 planned new urban residences were finished by last year, far behind schedule.
Meanwhile the report also noted that only a few safety tasks have been done, leaving risks. The sewage system in Jiegu Town, an aged town which suffered great losses in the quake, is still unfinished and the waste is still washed directly into rivers, said the report.
How the money and goods are used for the disasters were under close scrutiny after a recent report that said some disaster-relief supplies directed to help in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake have been left unopened for four years, raising concerns of waste and improper management.
But government officials said the families affected by the Sichuan quake have gotten everything they needed from the relief efforts, and that some of the goods are meant for long-term use.
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