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Article: Fujian Province starts reconstruction work after Typhoon Longwang
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- October 6, 2005
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Fujian Province starts reconstruction work after Typhoon Longwang
FUZHOU, Oct. 6 (Xinhua) -- People in southeast China's Fujian
Province have started their reconstruction work orderly after the
conclusion of awesome Typhoon Longwang, which has claimed 15 lives
and left 11 missing.
Longwang, which landed in Fujian Sunday night and swept over the
province for ten hours, destroyed 5,500 houses, affected the normal
life of 3.71 million people, forced 186 highways in the province to
close and 2,125 enterprises to stop production.
In an effort to speed up the reconstruction work, the local
government held emergent meetings and ...