Chinese Vice Premier Hui Liangyu Tuesday called for greater efforts to fight droughts and flood disasters, and especially the disasters brought by the recent cold snap.
Relevant authorities at all levels should step up monitoring and warning on the cold wave, maintain smooth flow of traffic and a sound circulation of necessities for the public, strengthen anti-disaster technological guidance on agriculture and animal husbandry to ensure vegetable and other farm byproducts supply, soas to maintain a good economic and social order, said Hui at a meeting jointly held by the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters and the National Disaster Reduction Commission.
Local governments were urged to take measures to combat droughts, provide safe drinkable water for residents in the disaster-hit zones.
Hui also urged relevant departments to devote more efforts to restore the damaged water conservancy projects, and offer adequate food, clothes and medical treatment to people in the disaster-hit regions.
A strong clod snap began to hit a vast range of areas in the country from Jan. 2, bringing snowstorms and a temperature plunge of up to 18 degrees Celsius in some regions.
BEIJING, Jan.4 (Xinhua) — China’s capital reported the heaviest daily snowfall in nearly six decades on Sunday, local meteorological bureau said Monday.
At 10 p.m. Sunday, a major meteorological observatory in the southern suburbs of Beijing recorded a daily snowfall of 10 millimeters, the largest amount in one day since 1951, the bureau noted.Full story
BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — The Ministry of Agriculture dispatched Sunday seven working teams to oversee and guide agricultural work in major wheat and vegetable production bases in north China as a strong cold wave had swept across the region from Saturday.
Snowstorms and a temperature plunge caused by a strong clod snap had hit a vast range of areas in the country, bringing adverse effects on the agricultural production. Full story
HONG KONG, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Over 30 flights were canceled or delayed at Hong Kong International Airport on Sunday, due to heavy snow in the country’s capital city of Beijing.
By 21:00 (1300 GMT) local time, seven departure flights to Beijing were canceled and 10 delayed. As for arrivals, eight were canceled and nine delayed, said the spokesman of the department of News Relations from the Hong Kong’s Airport Authority. Flights to other cities including Dalian and Tianjing were also affected by the bad weather. Full story
BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — Beijing traffic authority has decided to go all out to deal with possible traffic jams or accidents during peak hours Monday morning after a snow storm Sunday caused traffic breakdown in the national capital.
“Low temperature and ice-covered roads are expected to severely affect local traffic on Monday morning,” said Song Jianguo, head of the Beijing Traffic Management Bureau. Full story
BEIJING, Jan. 3 (Xinhua) — China’s Central Meteorological Station (CMS) on Sunday morning extended the warning against strong cold wave, snowstorm and heavy fog by issuing another orange alert.
Affected by the strong cold snap, temperature was to fall by 8 to 12 degrees Celsius in central and western Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, eastern parts of northwest China, north China, Guizhou and Chongqing from Sunday to Monday, according to the CMS. Full story
BEIJING, Jan. 2 (Xinhua) — A strong cold wave will sweep most of China and force down temperature in the coming two days beginning on Saturday as northern Chinese cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and others in Hebei Province embraced new year’s first snowfall.
The Central Meteorological Station (CMS) issued an orange alert for the cold wave, warning that most areas in north, central and east China would suffer temperature drops ranging from 8 to 12 degrees Celsius.