The relief policy of Late Qing in Hunan Province mainly inherited the traditions of previous dynasties,chiefly including such measures as the urgent relief,the exemption and postponement of taxes,the sales of grain in ganaries at fair prices in years of famine,the labor for food relief,disaster relief,which,to some extent,contributed to the relief of the starving people.

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The Qing government had made clear and definite law-making stipulations on specific issues such as reporting disasters, surveying disasters, relieving the people in disaster, reconstructing after the disaster, punishing the corruption in the disaster relief.

The viceroy named Zhang Zhidong raised the relief fund by all kinds of ways for the relieving affair .

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Meanwhile,the temples often relieved the believer and gave them not only Buddhist doctrine but also property.

The characters of the official relief in Henan during Guangxu are just as follows: Firstly,the traditional means to relief lagged;Secondly,the sources of fund were socializing day by day;Thirdly,the task of local relief were also aggravating;Fourthly,the maintenance and reconstruction of social order were valued;Besides,the actions of promoting relief were usually taken at disasters.

By the origin of aids, the relieves consisted of court relief, official relief, populace relief; by the ways of relieving, the gratuitous aids, free tax system or tax decreasing, lowering the prices, job offering or relief fund were included.