(WU TAILIANG)

Relief workers carry a child to a helicopter in Caopo Township in Wenchuan County, southwest China's Sichuan Province, on July 16 after a flood inundated the region.

The provincial government reported on the day that rainstorm-triggered floods and a landslide in the previous week had claimed 58 lives and left 175 people missing in Sichuan.

The Ministry of Finance said on July 17 that 250 million yuan ($41 million) from the central budget had been allocated to Sichuan for rebuilding damaged homes and as allowance for flood victims.