The death toll from the May 12 earthquake in Sichuan Province and its neighboring region remained unchanged as 69,227 as of Monday afternoon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement.

The numbers of people listed as missing and injured were 17,923 and 374,643 respectively.

As of Monday afternoon, a total of 1,486,407 quake-affected people had been relocated.

Among 96,544 persons who were hospitalized for injury, 93,518 had been discharged, the statement said.

The government spending on disaster relief and reconstruction had topped 76.806 billion yuan (about US$11.24 billion), including 69.337 billion yuan from the central budget and 7.469 billion yuan from the local budget.

According to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, domestic and foreign donations had reached 59.461 billion yuan in cash and goods by Monday noon. Of this, 26.88 billion yuan had been forwarded to quake-hit areas.

About 1.58 million tents, 4.87 million quilts, 14.1 million garments, 4.09 million tons of fuel and 8.75 million tons of coal had been sent to the quake-hit areas, it said.

Relief workers have built 677,131 temporary houses for relocated people.

In the 96 hours ending Monday noon, one strong aftershock and 589 aftershocks at or below magnitude 3.9 were monitored in the quake zone, according to the China Earthquake Administration.

A total of 30,825 aftershocks had been detected since May 12.

A total of 476,172 tons of grain and 12,102 tons of cooking oil have been allocated to the quake zones from central reserves as of Sunday, the statement said.

Of the 53,295 km of roads damaged in the quake, 53,018 km had been restored, according to the statement.

And 128,154 of the 138,960 business outlets damaged by the quake had been reopened, the statement read.

As of Monday noon, 210,725 quake-affected people had been organized to work outside of the quake zone, while another 846,245people had found jobs in their hometowns.

(Xinhua News Agency September 23, 2008)