Ice-stricken Guizhou Province in southwest China received an
overnight sleet on Sunday, which once again brought down the
temperature and frozen the thawing ice on roads.
The provincial meteorological station forecast that this round
of sleet may continue to Monday morning in the central and western
parts of the province, exacerbating lingering ice disaster in the
region, which had shown signs of thawing for the past few days.
The disaster relief and emergency command center under the State
Council said on Saturday that public traffic in snow-hit southern
China region has gradually recovered, except some areas of Guizhou
Province.
In its daily brief on the progress of disaster relief, the
emergency command center said that rail and highway transportation
are quite normal throughout the country, except a few counties in
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guizhou Province, where
traffic control was imposed on some low-grade roads due to freezing
surface.
It reported that transport via railways, expressway and airports
in the southern China region remained basically on schedule on
Saturday.
(Xinhua News Agency February 10, 2008)