Fighting Floods in China: 2008

-	China Charity Federation
-	Chinese Red Cross Foundation
-	Red Cross Society of China

Current Damage

•Death Toll: 309; Missing: 73; Affected: 62.2 million

•Affected Crops: 3.676 million hectares

•Economic Losses: 49 billion yuan

•Most seriously Affected: Guangxi, Guangdong ,Hunan, Jiangxi provinces

　 Relief Efforts

-	Mainland willing to send fresh vegetables to typhoon-hit Taiwan
-	Three Gorges Reservoir starts flood-control effort
-	HK emergency response system under review
-	Troops urged to realize importance of flood prevention
-	Emergency repair of Jingguang railway after downpour
-	Soldiers, sandbags to fore in drenched south
-	Reservoir opened to discharge floodwater
-	More measures called to fight flooding
-	16 mln yuan allocated to flood-hit Guizhou Province