According to the regulation, related departments should properly arrange the location of temporary housing and their supporting facilities and distribution of funds and materials.

The temporary settlements should occupy farmland as little as possible, and avoid causing destruction to natural reserves, drinking water sources and vulnerable ecological areas.

The settlements should be put in safe areas with convenient traffic and equipped with water, power, roads, schools, toilets, medical and cultural facilities. The building materials must be of safe quality.

It was also made clear that governments at all levels should regularly publicize the source, amount, distribution and use of relief capital and goods and receive public supervision.

Auditing organs should strengthen their checking over the reconstruction capital and goods and regularly make them open to public scrutiny.

While helping resume production, local governments should offer quake victims psychological counseling, the regulation said.

As of Monday noon, the 8.0-magnitude quake that rocked the southwestern Sichuan Province on May 12 had taken 69,142 lives, injured 374,065 people, left 17,551 missing and 46.25 million affected.

(Xinhua News Agency June 10, 2008)