Yushu reconstruction progressing but "with problems": auditors
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E-mail Xinhua, March 30, 2012
The National Audit Office (NAO) said Friday reconstruction of quake-hit Yushu prefecture has seen "significant initial results" in 2011, but there are still problems and irregularities with the projects.
Chinese auditors have checked up on management of the rebuilding of the area in northwest China's Qinghai Province that was devastated by a 7.1-magnitude quake on April 14, 2010. They mainly covered 60 projects that involved 10.268 billion yuan (1.63 billion U.S. dollars), according to an NAO report.
It said that, by the end of October last year, 908 reconstruction projects had commenced while 112 had been completed, accounting for 57.5 percent and 7.72 percent, respectively, of all the planned projects.
Meanwhile, a total of 19.9 billion yuan, or 62.75 percent of the planned investment of 31.7 billion yuan, has been spent on reconstruction.
By October last year, 21,294 homes for local farmers and herdsmen had been completed, according to the report. In the period, building work started on 79 of the 95 planned educational projects, with 11 finished.
Local authorities have started building 46 medicare projects and finished five of 66 planned projects. Meanwhile, they have started the repair of 44 cultural relics damaged in the quake, as well as all the temples and religious sites hit by the natural disaster.
However, auditors found problems in the implementation of post-quake rebuilding plans, distribution of relief funds and management of reconstruction projects. They have also uncovered environmental issues, power shortages and slow progress in granting loans for home rebuilding.
The NAO said 278 million yuan of reconstruction funding has not yet been put to use due to construction delays and mismanagement.
Local authorities in Qinghai have paid high attention to these issues and taken steps to correct all the problems discovered, according to Xu Aisheng, a senior official with the NAO.
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