A number of natural disasters in China

In January-September 2012, a total of 310 million people in China suffered from a variety of natural disasters, 1263 people were killed, 189 missing, 10 million 768 thousand were quickly evacuated, 18.27 million people were in need of assistance.This information is disseminated the Ministry of Civil Affairs / MCA / and the State Committee for minimizing the damage caused by natural disasters China.The statistics also show that in a given time as a result of natural disasters 825 thousand buildings were destroyed and 4.2 million buildings in the more or less damaged, affected 32.53 million hectares of farmland. Direct economic losses from natural disasters reached 347.71 billion yuan / not including data on Syanganu, Macao and Taiwan /.Following consultations and analysis conducted by the above mentioned ministries and committees with the relevant departments and agencies of China, in the first three quarters are most often floods / gathering including mudflows and landslides /, wind and hail, and typhoons, some areas have been drought, earthquakes, disease and invasion of crop pests, snow, low temperatures, frost and sand-dust storms..