综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

   

China works to limit snow-inflicted chaos

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-01-28 19:26

BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have spared no effort in combating snow-inflicted woes and reducing the negative impact to the least extent as volatile weather continued to rage in a dozen Chinese regions on Monday.

The Chinese Ministry of Railways mobilized 35 extra trains on Sunday night to help disperse about 500,000 passengers who were stranded in Guangzhou, capital of the southern Guangdong Province, because of snow, the Guangzhou Railways Company Group said.

Millions of travelers are currently struggling to make their annual trip home as the Spring Festival, the most important Chinese holiday, is only nine days away.

Passenger build-up in Guangzhou has been especially heavy because the southern end of the Beijing-Guangzhou rail line, a north-south trunk railroad, has been paralyzed because of heavy snow in the central Hunan Province where power transmission facilities have been knocked out.

Adding to the woes, seven of the eight highways connecting Guangdong and Hunan provinces have been cut off.

Prior to Sunday night the Ministry of Railways had already dispatched 25 trains to Guangzhou to transport passengers by circumventing the Beijing-Guangzhou railway.

Traffic on the Beijing-Guangzhou line likely won't be normalized within the next three to five days.

The snow, the worst in a decade in many places, has hit most of China since January 12, causing collapsed homes, power blackouts, highway closures and destroyed crops.

Hunan Province and the western Guizhou Province have been the worst hit by the unprecedented cold spell.

Apart from stranding multitudes of travelers, the bad weather has also caused at least a dozen deaths,injured thousands and caused massive delays in bus and air travel.

Airports in at least 10 cities, such as Wuhan, Nanjing, Changsha and Changzhou, were closed temporarily on Monday.

The China Meteorological Administration (CMA) issued a red alert early on Monday for severe snowstorms forecast for the central and eastern parts of the country.

According to the forecast, heavy snow is set to blanket northern Hunan, eastern Hubei, southeastern Henan and northwestern Zhejiang, as well as most areas of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces on Monday.

In addition, freezing rain will pound some parts of Guizhou, Hunan, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Anhui and Zhejiang.

The CMA warned local governments and departments to prepare for the coming bad weather. Transport, railway, electricity and communication departments were advised to prepare post-snow clean-ups, while suggesting citizens in these areas should reduce their unnecessary outdoor activities.



Top China News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
临夏县| 大城县| 东丽区| 肇东市| 马关县| 景泰县| 方正县| 大邑县| 连城县| 汝州市| 和硕县| 同德县| 满城县| 奇台县| 介休市| 秀山| 无棣县| 白山市| 大竹县| 定安县| 禹州市| 荃湾区| 诸暨市| 长武县| 赞皇县| 普兰县| 建德市| 阜南县| 颍上县| 道真| 大荔县| 翁牛特旗| 莆田市| 汉中市| 巫山县| 海伦市| 扎鲁特旗| 德惠市| 方城县| 西安市| 苗栗县|