After the floods occurred, on July 11, 1991, a press conference for the "Emergency Appeal for Disaster Relief" was held in Beijing. Chen Hong, Secretary-General of China's "International Decade for Disaster Reduction" Committee and Vice Minister of Civil Affairs, spoke at the news At the press conference, they briefed Chinese and foreign reporters on the disaster situation and, on behalf of the Chinese government, urgently appealed to relevant United Nations agencies, governments, international organizations, and all relevant parties in the international community to provide humanitarian relief assistance to the disaster-stricken areas in Anhui and Jiangsu provinces of China.
The United Nations has received donations from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, New Zealand, etc., totaling more than 50 million yuan.
In Hong Kong, people from the entertainment industry filmed the movie "The Big Banquet" and held a large-scale concert called "The Selfless Extravaganza" at Happy Valley Racecourse to raise funds for flood victims. The British Hong Kong government allocated HK$50 million to provide relief to the disaster-stricken areas in East China, and an upsurge in donations was immediately launched across Hong Kong to aid flood relief in East China. According to relevant statistics, as of July 23, in just ten days, the total amount of disaster relief funds raised in Hong Kong had reached more than HK$470 million. At the same time, Taiwan's donations to the disaster-stricken areas in East China exceeded US$3 million. TTV, China Television, and China Television accept postal transfer donations through their respective "Charity Accounts." On the evening of July 28, 1991, China Television and Minsheng Daily held the "Send Love to the Mainland" disaster relief party at the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall (first broadcast time: 22:10 on July 28, 1991 to 00:50 on July 29, 1991 ), hosted by Zhang Xiaoyan, Hu Gua, and Yang Fan, raised more than NT$40 million. Donations from Macau also exceeded 20 million patacas.
From July 11 to December 31, 1991, China’s Communist Party received domestic and foreign donations totaling 2.3 billion yuan, equivalent to 2.3 times the country’s living relief expenses for disaster victims in normal years, of which nearly Forty percent came from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan and overseas Chinese. By July 1992, the total donation had increased to 28.3 billion yuan.