Snow makes going tough as return to work begins
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Snowstorms further disrupted travel for millions of people returning to work yesterday after Spring Festival family reunions.
The National Meteorological Center issued a yellow alert for blizzards, the second lowest in a four-tier system, and said Henan, Hubei, Anhui and Jiangsu provinces would continue to suffer from snow this morning.
Falls in some regions could be as deep as 20 centimeters, leading to slippery conditions on roads, the center said.
The blizzards coincided with the final day of the weeklong Spring Festival holiday.
Authorities in eight provinces have launched emergency response systems to ensure the safety of road traffic under extreme weather conditions.
Highways in the provinces of Shandong, Shaanxi, Shanxi and Hubei have been partially or completely closed and high-speed trains in Hubei, Henan and Shaanxi have been forced to operate at lower speeds since Wednesday.
In south China’s Guangdong Province, where 700,000 passengers were expected to travel by train yesterday, 100 trains were delayed because of rain or snow along the regular and high-speed lines that run between the provincial capital of Guangzhou and Beijing, said a manager with the Guangzhou Railway Group.
The group has put 100 diesel locomotives and 90 electric generators on standby.
Shanghai’s railway stations saw the arrival of 338,000 passengers yesterday and the departure of some 157,000. An additional 76 trains have been pressed into service.
However, snow in east China’s Shandong Province led to delays on the high-speed Shanghai-Beijing route after a maximum speed limit of 200 kilometers an hour was imposed. Ten services to Shanghai suffered delays of about an hour yesterday.
The China Railway Corporation said there had been a 9 percent increase in the number of railway passengers this year, with 7.97 million recorded by Wednesday.
Dozens of flights between Shanghai and Zhengzhou in Henan Province were delayed because of snow in Zhengzhou and the aftermath of an incident when the front landing gear on a taxiing plane collapsed on Tuesday.
Some China Eastern and China Southern flights between the two cities were delayed for up to 12 hours yesterday.
Snow was forecast for Beijing last night — the capital has not seen rain or snow for 107 days.
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