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2010年
全国水利发展统计公报
Flood or drought affected and damaged areas in 2000-2010
unit:1,000 ha
60,000
50,000
40,000
30,000
20,000
10,000
0 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
2000
Affected area Damaged area
Liaoning, Shaanxi and Gansu suffered heavily from disasters. Mountain flood
happened frequently, especially in the southwest of China.
The year of 2010 is regarded as medium level drought. Severe spring drought
occurred in the southwest region; summer drought occurred in the northeast and
eastern part of northwest. The farmland affected by droughts were 26,553,000 ha,
of which 13,259,000 ha were affected, 8,987,000 ha damaged and 2,672,000 ha
had no harvest, resulting in grain loss of 16.8 billion kg and crop economic loss of
38.8 billion Yuan. The direct economic losses caused by drought disaster reached
to 150.9 billion Yuan. There were 33.35 million urban and rural population and
24.41 million man-feed big animals and livestock suffered from temporary drinking
water difficulties due to these droughts.
The Central Government allocated 2.984 billion Yuan through funds for water
infrastructure construction and funds for extraordinary flood and drought relief,
of which 793 million Yuan for emergency flood control, 1.711 billion Yuan for
extraordinary floods, and 480 million Yuan for extraordinary droughts.
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