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| Icy weather and sleet have affected more than 3.83 million people across South China since Saturday, Jan 1, 2011, with the cold snap forecast to last 10 more days. The harsh weather, which arrived on New Year's Day, has also driven up grocery prices and cut supplies in some cities. Regional governments have implemented a series of measures to assist the affected people, such as cleaning up road or distributing food and relief items. As of 5 pm on Tuesday, the freezing conditions had killed one person and forced the evacuation of 58,000 residents in Jiangxi, Hunan, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces and Chongqing municipality, according to a statement on the website of the Ministry of Civil Affairs on Jan 5, 2011. [Full text] | ||
 A driver slips on a road in Wulong county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, Jan 4, 2011. Freezing weather has hit the southeastern part of Chongqing, affecting supplies of gas, electricity and water. [Photo/Xinhua] | ||
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 Students dine around their makeshift hand-stoves at a school in Chaping township, Xinhuang Dong autonomous county in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] | ||
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 Residents of Sanyuan village in Guizhou province’s Xiuwen county push a trolley carrying water from outside the village, after freezing weather damaged the water pipes. [Photo/China Daily] | ||
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The wildlife park in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou province provides electric heater for kangaroos, crocodiles and chimpanzees when the lowest temperature drops to -4C. [Photo/Xinhua] | ||
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 A worker's hand is cut by glasses when he repairs a water pipeline in Jiuyang county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Jan 6, 2011. The whole county suspended its water supply because water pipelines were damaged from the rare but severe freezing weather. Nearly 100,000 residents have been affected. [Photo/Xinhua] | |
 Staffers with the road management bureau scatter salt on icy road in Wanshan, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 5, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
 Staffers with the road management bureau shovel ice on the road in Ziyuan county, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Jan 5, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
 Soldiers bring water to villagers in Wanshan, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 6, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua] |
 Workers race against the clock to repair damaged water meters in Jiuyang county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Jan 6, 2010. [Photo/Xinhua] |
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 Rescuers try to pull back two cars that slipped into a roadside dyke in Kaili city, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 2, 2011. |
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 A driver looks out of his car stranded on the Huaihua section of NO 319 national highway in Central China's Hunan province on Jan 4, 2011. |
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 A car runs beside a van belonging to the road administration covered in ice on the Changde-Jishou Highway in Central China's Hunan province, Jan 3, 2011. |
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Frozen weather damages farmland |
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| Power lines are coated in ice in Kaiyang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 4, 2011. | Ice-covered plants are seen roadside in Kaiyang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 4, 2011. | A man walks on ice-covered farmland in Kaiyang county, Southwest China's Guizhou province, Jan 4, 2011. |
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| A man holds a frozen pipe at a cattle farm in Yangliu village, Wulong county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, Jan 4, 2011. | A farmer walks along snow-covered farmland in Yangliu village, Wulong county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, Jan 4, 2011. | Crops are covered by snow in Yangliu village, Wulong county, Southwest China's Chongqing municipality, Jan 4, 2011. |