China's Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Emergency Management on Monday earmarked 80 million yuan from the central natural-disaster relief fund to support relief work in the flood-hit provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi.

10月11日，财政部、应急管理部紧急预拨8000万元救灾补助资金，支持山西省和陕西省防汛救灾工作。

The China National Commission for Disaster Reduction and MEM have activated a Level-IV emergency response to floods in the two provinces.

国家减灾委、应急管理部针对陕西、山西两省近期严重洪涝灾害，启动国家Ⅳ级救灾应急响应。

Fifteen people died and three remain missing due to torrential rains affecting a population of 1.75 million in North China's Shanxi province, the provincial government said at a news conference on Tuesday.

山西省政府10月12日在新闻发布会上表示，该省严重洪涝灾害已致175万人受灾，15人死亡，3人失踪。

The damage in Shaanxi was mostly confined to Weinan, a city of 5 million people on the Shanxi border.

陕西省的灾情则主要集中在渭南市，渭南市位于陕西与山西交界处，是一个人口500万的城市。