The Ministry of Commerce holds a video conference in Beijing
concerning the market supply of food and commodities for snow-hit
areas, February 1, 2008. More bad weather was forecast for China's
central, southern and eastern regions which were already paralyzed
by record-breaking cold and snow.
Soldiers load quilts and winter clothes onto trucks in snow in
Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province to transport the materials to
blizzard-hit provinces. More bad weather was forecast for China's
central, southern and eastern regions which were already paralyzed
by record-breaking cold and snow.
Soldiers load quilts and winter clothes onto trucks in snow in
Wuhan, central China's Hubei Province to transport the materials to
blizzard-hit provinces. More bad weather was forecast for China's
central, southern and eastern regions which were already paralyzed
by record-breaking cold and snow.
A girl clears accumulated heavy snow on her roof in Yuexi, east
China's Anhui Province, February 1, 2008. More bad weather was
forecast for China's central, southern and eastern regions which
were already paralyzed by record-breaking cold and snow.
A night view of Lujiazui financial district in central Shanghai,
January 31, 2008. Shanghai has turned off all the nightscape
lighting in the city to ease the power strain caused by
record-breaking cold and snow.
(Xinhua News Agency February 2, 2008)