Chinese soldiers lift a
child among the stranded passengers at the railway station in
Guangzhou, the capital city of south China's Guangdong Province
Friday, Feb. 1, 2008.
A rescue man carries an
80-year-old woman, out of Jinlian village in Longnan county, east
China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 3, 2008. Some 1761 people in Jinlian
village trapped for days of frozen weather without electricity and
water supply were rescued successfully on Sunday.
A soldier eats snow to
quench his thirst during a break on Feb. 3, 2008 on the
Beijing-Zhuhai expressway, a north-south trunk road, where Chinese
soldiers tried their best to clean ice and snow.
Exhausted Chinese soldiers
fall asleep in a truck after they had cleaned snow and ice for
eight days and nights on the highway, a major north-south trunk
road, Feb. 4, 2008.
An electrician works to
restore power supply in Yihuang County, east China's Jiangxi
Province Jan. 31, 2008. The power network in the county was damaged
after days of snow and sleet.
People in Changsha, the
capital city of central China's Hunan Province, bid farewell to Luo
Haiwen, Luo Changming and Zhou Jinghua who were taken down by the
power pylon when they were repairing the electricity tower which
collapsed under the weight of ice.
(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2008)
