Communities in southeastern China are straining to resettle more than 15 million people left homeless by four devastating typhoons in the past few months, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Friday. The storms caused direct damage costing 28.6 billion yuan (US$3.6 billion;¤2.8 billion), Xinhua said, citing provincial officials in Fujian, the province worst hit by the disasters. The most costly damage was to businesses, farms, communications networks and water conservation projects. It said the central government had allocated only 60 million yuan (US$7.5 million;¤5.9 million) in relief funds for Fujian and neighboring Zhejiang province.
