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)