The number of people who remained missing after the 8.0-magnitude earthquake in southwest China stood at 17,551 as of Monday noon, down 135 from previous day, the State Council Information Office said in Beijing.

The death toll of the major quake increased by six overnight to 69,142. A total of 374,065 people were injured after the quake jolted Sichuan Province and neighboring regions on May 12.

Hospitals had treated 95,169 injured people as of Monday noon, of whom 76,554 had been discharged and 16,019 were still being treated.

By Sunday, more than 1.38 million quake survivors had been found and evacuated.

Relief supplies continued to pour into the quake zone. As of Monday noon, 950,700 tents, 4.76 million quilts, 13.96 million garments, 854,900 tons of fuel oil and 1.82 million tons of coal had been sent.

The office said as of Sunday, relief workers had built 57,100 temporary houses and another 23,100 were being installed, while the material for 55,500 makeshift houses had arrived in the affected areas.

As of Monday noon, domestic and foreign donations had reached 44.1 billion yuan (about US$6.3 billion).

So far, 13.7 billion yuan, in cash and materials, had been forwarded to the earthquake-affected areas, the office said.

The government disaster relief fund had reached 23.44 billion yuan (US$3.35 billion), including 18.91 billion yuan from the central budget and 4.53 billion yuan from the local budget.

As of 4:00 PM on Sunday, 4,003 enterprises had resumed production in the quake regions, according to the office.

The quake had so far caused 206.51 billion yuan in economic losses to industrial and mining enterprises, with 1,482 firms remaining closed.

In the 24 hours ending Monday noon, 189 aftershocks were monitored in southwest China's quake zone, according to the China Earthquake Administration.

One of the tremors measured between 4.0 to 4.9 and all the others measured at or below 3.9 magnitude, the administration said.

Since the primary quake, 11,194 aftershocks have been detected.

(Xinhua News Agency June 9, 2008)