A migrant worker holds his train ticket in his mouth as he stands in a queue on a platform at Shanghai Train Station January 28, 2008. The snow has struck as tens of millions of Chinese crowd home to celebrate the Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, which starts on February 7 this year, an annual migration that strains train and plane services at the best of times. [Agencies]

Repairmen work to restore power supply after it was cut by a rare snowstorm in Xuancheng, East China's Anhui Province. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss. [Xinhua]

A man clears snow from a car in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, January 28, 2008, after the city was hit by the heaviest snowfall since 1961. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss. [Xinhua]

Women walk past the lanterns as snow falls in downtown Shanghai,January 28, 2008. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss. [Agencies]

Trees are covered by snow on the street of Nanjing, Jiangsu Province January 28, 2008. The city of Nanjing was hit by the heaviest snowstorm since 1961. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss. [Xinhua]

(China Daily January 29, 2008)