BEIJING - The Ministry of Finance announced Wednesday that funding worth 649 million yuan (about $91 million) had been allocated to support flood response and disaster relief efforts in multiple Chinese regions.

The central government funding, which was allocated Tuesday, will specifically support typhoon and flood response, as well as disaster relief, in the provinces of Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Anhui, Fujian, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, and also in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region and Chongqing municipality, the ministry said in a statement.

The funding will be used to assist these regions in doing work such as repairing damaged water projects and facilities, as well as investigating and eliminating safety hazards, to ensure the safe operations of water projects and facilities during the main flood season, the statement said.

The Ministry of Emergency Management said Monday that seven major river basins in China were bracing for the main flood season in August, a time when flood disasters may occur in multiple regions and water levels may rise beyond control lines in some rivers. It also warned that two or three typhoons would make landfall this month, affecting the nation's southern and eastern regions.

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China has stepped up its emergency response and disaster relief efforts in the current flood season. Funds, relief materials and rescue workers have been continuously sent to flood-hit regions.

The national observatory on Wednesday morning forecasted rainstorms in central regions of Shanxi and Henan and warned of high geological disaster risk in Gansu in the next 24 hours.

Dike breach sealed

Meanwhile, the dike breach at a river in Northeast China's Liaoning province was sealed at 4:27 am Wednesday after rescuers had worked around the clock to repair it, according to local authorities.

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The dike breach, measuring 18.6 meters in length, occurred on Tuesday at the Wanghe River, a tributary of the Liaohe River, near Fanjiawopeng village in the city of Tieling, due to rising water levels caused by continuous heavy rains.

Sun Huaijun, deputy director of the city's water resources bureau, said that over 130 emergency vehicles had been sent and more than 10,000 cubic meters of materials had been used to repair the dike.

No casualties have been reported, Sun added.