CRI听力:Typhoon Rammasun Death Toll Hits 33 in China

Another tropical storm is making its way toward China, while at the same time, relief efforts are underway after Typhoon Rammasun wreaked havoc in southern China and killed more than 30.

CRI's Robin has more.

Rammasun, the strongest typhoon to hit southern China in some four decades, brought gales, downpours and flooding to a number of southern provinces, affecting more than 8 million people in Hainan, Guangdong, Yunnan and Guangxi.

The central government has allocated 700 million for disaster relief.

Hainan, where Rammasun first made landfall on Friday, suffered the worst of the damage.

Over 600-thousand people on the island have been resettled and over 240-thousand others are in urgent need of basic necessities.

The provincial government has already set aside 100 million yuan in a relief fund.

Hainan governor Jiang Dingzhi.

"It has been four days since the disaster, and in some affected areas, residents have not been resettled yet, and they are still short of relief supplies. We have to make sure the power supplies in these cities and counties would resume before Thursday."

The disaster has also increased food prices in Hainan.

Prices of vegetables have increased by around 30 percent, while the cost of certain meat items has more than doubled.

At the same time, the local government in Guangxi is also working with the Chinese Red Cross to ferry relief supplies to areas of that region feeling the impact of Rammasun.

Liang Zongyong is a regional government official in Guangxi.

"In the wake of the disaster we have been trying to organize assistance to local farmers and help them repair their ponds and crops. We have also distributed fish fry, and are providing technical support to help the local aquiculture industry resume production."

As the clean-up from Rammasun takes place, another dangerous storm is also tracking toward China.

Typhoon Matmo is currently swirling just south of Taiwan.

It's forecast to hit the northern tip of the island in the next 24-hours.

Matmo is currently packing winds of 130-kilometers per hour, and is tracking directly toward Taipei.

After that, the typhoon is forecast to make landfall on the mainland sometime early Thursday, and is expected to roll into Anhui and Hubei before eventually burning out by the weekend.

For CRI, this is Robin.