Besides the common practice of relieving activities for famine years as conducted in central areas in China,Yunnan government provided famine military reliefs,reliefs for ethnic groups and favorable ones in the Ming Dynasty.

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.

Juan sympathizing, which was about the government exempting victims of a natural calamity and poor people from taxation and service or providing relief for them, was the important task of the past dynasties government in old times.

Western Missionaries and Shandong Disaster Relief in the Late Qing Dynasty

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 .

On the flood and Relief in Han Dynasty;

Analysis of the reasons for the relief to official students in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Prevention and Relief:Governments Relieving and Controlling Anhui Disasters in modern Times