Amid the prolonged snow crisis, the Publicity Department of the
Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television began on Sunday to
send 50,000 radios to the worst-hit southern provinces.
These radios would help people hear the "concerned voices of the
CPC Central Committee and the State Council, updated information on
relief work, news, communication and weather, as well as
recreational programs during the Spring Festival," said a brief
statement from the two bodies.
The radios would go to central Hubei, Hunan, eastern Anhui,
Jiangxi, and southwestern Sichuan, Guizhou Provinces, and southern
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, according to the statement.
The two departments, it said, would enhance organization to make
sure these radios would "reach disaster-affected people before the
Festival", which will be celebrated in mid-week.
The statement did not say how the radios would be shipped. Much
of the nation's transportation system has been thrown into chaos by
the weather, especially in the targeted areas.
(Xinhua News Agency February 4, 2008)