BEIJING: About 565 million yuan ($82.5 million) of rural funds earmarked for China’s poor regions had been found idle for over a year, according to the latest quarterly review by the National Audit Office (NAO).

Of the idle funds, 256 million yuan had been unused for more than two years, said the NAO, which examined 1,320 poverty relief projects in 30 poor counties involving five billion yuan of funds.

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