salji tebal melanda tengah china

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Salji tebal landa tengah China

KAWASAN Taman Larangan yang menjadi daya tarikan
pelancong diliputi salji tebal di Beijing semalam.

BEIJING

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Inilah Petanda Akhir Zaman...ahaksz..

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takut ni

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Cuaca buruk: Pesta Musim Bunga terjejas

BEIJING 26 Jan. - Salji dan hujan lebat yang melanda kebanyakan kawasan di China membawa kesulitan kepada berjuta-juta penduduk yang ingin pulang ke kampung halaman masing-masing bagi menyambut Pesta Musim Bunga.

Berpuluh-puluh ribu orang terkandas apabila perjalanan kereta api terganggu, lebuh raya ditutup dan bekalan tenaga terputus akibat salji tebal, yang turut menyebabkan jutaan penduduk diselimuti kesejukan kerana alat pemanas tidak boleh berfungsi.

Sebelum ini, media kerajaan melaporkan sekurang-kurangnya 17 orang maut, kebanyakan akibat kemalangan apabila jalan raya diliputi ais berikutan musim sejuk paling buruk dalam tempoh sedekad.

Cuaca buruk ketika ini turut memusnahkan kawasan pertanian, ternakan dan rumah.

Pusat Meteorologi hari ini berkata, gelombang sejuk yang melanda wilayah tengah, utara, barat dan timur China akan bergerak ke selatan minggu depan, membawa bersamanya hujan serta salji di bahagian selatan Sungai Yangtze.

- Bernama

Beberapa bahagian di selatan China sudah mengalami keadaan itu dengan kebanyakan lebuh raya di wilayah Guizhou dan Guangxi telah ditutup hingga mengakibatkan berpuluh-puluh ribu pengguna terkandas, lapor agensi berita Xinhua.

Akhbar China Daily hari ini melaporkan, berjuta-juta penduduk tidak dapat menggunakan alat pemanas dan memasak air apabila salji tebal merosakkan talian bekalan tenaga elektrik.

Sementara itu, gangguan terhadap sistem pengangkutan menyebabkan penghantaran arang batu yang digunakan sebagai bahan bakar bagi menghasilkan tiga perempat daripada tenaga elektrik di negara ini, tidak dapat dilakukan.

Stesen televisyen tempatan pula menyiarkan gambar penduduk Changsha, ibu kota wilayah Hunan, terpaksa menyewa bilik hotel kerana rumah mereka tidak mempunyai bekalan tenaga elektrik.

Majlis Negara atau Kabinet China mengarahkan pihak berkuasa tempatan berada dalam keadaan berjaga-jaga dan segera membersihkan jalan raya daripada timbunan salji dan ais bagi memastikan penghantaran bekalan makanan tidak terganggu.

"Penghantaran produk segar dari ladang - termasuk sayur, buah-buahan, ternakan dan ayam itik - sekali lagi akan berdepan dengan masalah besar apabila hujan berterusan dan salji melanda merata tempat di negara ini," kata Majlis itu dalam siaran stesen televisyen kerajaan.

Harga makanan meningkat sejak kebelakangan ini dan menyebabkan indeks harga pengguna melonjak kepada 4.8 peratus, dengan harga barang di luar bandar lebih tinggi daripada di bandar.

Majlis Negara juga memberi amaran kepada pemilik stesen minyak supaya tidak menaikkan harga bahan bakar serta memastikan bekalan bahan itu mencukupi bagi kegunaan kenderaan yang mengangkut bekalan makanan.

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China dihantui krisis tenaga terburuk

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[/td][/tr][tr][td]Kren digunakan untuk mengangkat sebuah bas yang menjunam sedalam lebih 40 meter di wilayah Guizhou, China semalam.

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China bakal berdepan kekurangan makanan

GUANGZHOU, China 31 Jan.

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China snow leaves millions in cold and dark

By John Ruwitch

GUANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Millions of Chinese faced a humanitarian crisis on Friday, as petrol and food reserves dwindled and yet more bad weather was forecast for a country paralysed by record-breaking cold and snow.

More than 160 counties and cities in central China were suffering blackouts and water shortages, Xinhua news agency said, including Chenzhou, in Hunan province, a city of 4 million that has been without power and water for more than a week.

"Many trees are severed and power lines have collapsed. It's like we have experienced an air raid or lost a battle," a Chenzhou hotel worker told Reuters by telephone. "It is a complete mess. We are hungry and cold."

Some 250,000 troops had been mobilised as of Friday to help with disaster relief and the army sent an armoured personnel carrier to clear one ice-covered highway, Xinhua said, as millions geared up for a cold, dark Chinese New Year next week.

Stricken areas of south and central China are suffering the worst winter weather in half a century, with at least 60 people dying in weather-related accidents.

Premier Wen Jiabao again visited Hunan, with state television showing pictures of him telling provincial officials to do all they could to restore power and other services.

Miners are working overtime and coal has been given priority to speed through the rail network as Beijing fights the country's most serious power crisis ever.

"Ice on power cables is so thick that it is impossible for the power cables to carry their weight and power pylons have collapsed," Zhu Hongren, an official with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), told a news conference.

State television said Chenzhou's petrol reserves could only run for another seven days and its rice could feed residents for another five days.

Cooking oil and vegetables were also running out, with prices surging. Residents were relying on fire engines for rationed drinking water, it said.

RESIGNATION AND ANGER

In hard-hit Guizhou province, prices of petrol and candles have quadrupled with the country already facing its highest inflation in more than a decade.

The Ministry of Communications said trucks carrying farm goods would be exempt from highway tolls.

Zhu said the disaster had taken an economic toll, but added that "underlying fundamentals" were still sound.

"If we take a long-term view, such a disaster will be a temporary one, and therefore its impact on the economy will be short-term," he said.

But Hunan, Guizhou and Jiangxi were all facing fresh storms, and Zhu said the extreme weather could last another 10 days.

Some took to Internet bulletin boards to complain the government had ignored them, though frustration has so far not boiled over into large-scale unrest.

"We are almost totally cut off from the outside world, with no water and no power," Sanllyzhao wrote from Bijie in Guizhou.

"Please wake up Guizhou government!"

Nearly 6 million passengers have also been stranded on trains or in railway stations in the past week.

On Friday, the railways were creaking back into action and the key link between Beijing and Guangzhou had been restored. Numbers waiting in Guangzhou's station were down by half from a peak of 800,000, but that still left hundreds of thousands of travellers scrambling to board delayed trains.

For millions of China's migrant workers, next week's Lunar New Year holiday is their only chance to see family all year.

In Guangzhou, travellers needed luck as well as a ticket.

"It's not looking good," said Hu Lin, an environmental assessment official from Hubei province. "This is like if you prepare dinner for two and 200 people show up."

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China dilanda krisis kemanusiaan

Salji terburuk dalam 5 dekad jejas bekalan tenaga, makanan menjelang Tahun Baru

GUANGZHOU: Berjuta rakyat China berdepan krisis kemanusiaan semalam, ketika simpanan petrol dan makanan semakin berkurangan dan cuaca buruk diramal berterusan di negara yang kini lumpuh akibat suhu sejuk dan salji terburuk dalam masa lima dekad.

Cuaca buruk tidak dijangkakan itu juga menyebabkan sistem pengangkutan terjejas, seterusnya mencetuskan kesesakan di stesen kereta api apabila berpuluh ribu orang berebut untuk pulang ke kampung sempena cuti Tahun Baru Cina.

Lebih 160 mukim dan bandar raya di tengah China mengalami gangguan bekalan elektrik dan kekurangan air, lapor agensi berita Xinhua, termasuk Chenzhou, di wilayah Hunan, bandar raya dengan empat juta penduduk yang tidak mempunyai bekalan elektrik dan air selama lebih seminggu.

揃anyak pokok dan tiang elektrik tumbang. Ia seolah-olah kami mengalami serangan udara atau dalam perang. Ia memang kacau-bilau. Kami lapar dan kesejukan,

alphawolf

Siapa kata winter tu 'best'?

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moderate winter won't be that bad..-  temp roughly between 5 to -10 still okay... but winter plus wind chill factor  is deadly... (which can go up to -50 and some end up dead because of hypothermia)

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Monday February 4, 2008
China battles "coldest winter in 100 years"
By John Ruwitch


CHENZHOU, China (Reuters) - Millions remained stranded in China onMonday ahead of the biggest holiday of the year as parts of the countrysuffered their coldest winter in a century.

Farmers walk along a snow-covered field in Wuhu, Anhui province, February 3, 2008. (REUTERS/Jianan Yu)

Freezing storms have killed scores of people and left travellersstranded before the Lunar New Year, or Spring Festival -- the onlyopportunity many people have to take a holiday all year.

They have also brought China unwanted negative publicity six months before the Summer Olympics in Beijing.

President Hu Jintao chaired an emergency Politburo meeting on Sunday for the second time in a week to discuss rescue efforts.

"We have to be clear-minded that the inclement weather and severedisaster will continue to plague certain regions in the south," said astatement issued after Sunday's meeting. "Relief work will continue toface challenges, posing a tough task."

The China Meteorological Administration said the weather was thecoldest in 100 years in central Hubei and Hunan provinces, going by thetotal number of consecutive days of average temperature less than 1degree Celsius (33.8 degrees Fahrenheit).

But it expected brighter weather ahead.

"The weather over the disaster-stricken regions is likely to turnbetter in the next several days, but it is still necessary to remainalert for possible low temperatures, frozen rain, snow, freezing andheavy fog," it said in a statement.

Four people died after a snow-laden roof collapsed at a fuel stationin the eastern city of Nanjing on Sunday, Xinhua news agency said. Oneperson was killed in a stampede at Guangzhou railway station in thesouth as people rushed to board trains.
Roads and railways, some of which have been blocked for days, havestarted to move again, and fewer flights were being cancelled, statemedia said, offering a glimmer of hope.

But some areas were also blanketed by fog, and more snow, rain and sleet was expected later on Monday.

In China's commercial capital of Shanghai, 795,000 people left bytrain on Saturday alone, and a further 110,000 left by road on Sunday,Xinhua news agency said.

CAJOLED TO SKIP HOLIDAY

Authorities in the southern city of Guangzhou said their prioritywas to clear the backlog of travellers, having cajoled millions ofmigrant workers to stay put and skip the holiday.

Elsewhere, efforts turned to restoring power and water, which somecities, like Chenzhou in the south, have been without for more than aweek, causing some to question China's ability to handle emergenciesmonths before Beijing holds the Olympics.

"Without power the only information we have been getting is by SMSfrom the government," said Chenzhou resident Zheng Ninghong, tending afruit stall amid the slush.

"There was one, I think, that said it would get warmer, but what we need is electricity."

China has largely avoided unrest throughout the crisis, in part dueto hundreds of thousands of soldiers and paramilitary police that havebeen deployed around the country to help with disaster relief and crowdcontrol.

But Web posts showed signs of mounting frustration.

"Sanllyzhao" wrote from Bijie in the poor southern province ofGuizhou, to describe the "true situation" down there, which includedhaving no water or power supplies for the last two weeks and beingignored by the authorities.

"Please wake up Guizhou government!" the post ends.

Mobilising the might of the state, China has deployed more than300,000 troops and nearly 1.1 million militia and army reservists toget traffic moving and ensure power supplies.

Pictures from Wuhan, capital of the central province of Hubei andlying at the middle reaches of the Yangtze and Han rivers, showed carsblanketed not by snow, but by ice. Riverside barriers and trees weredraped in huge icicles.

The China Daily quoted Li Pumin, spokesman for top planning body theNational Development and Reform Commission, as saying power plants inBeijing and Shanghai had only enough coal for less than seven days.

"But top economic planners said the country had reversed a sharpdecline in coal reserves. There was enough coal on Saturday to generateelectricity for the entire country for the next eight days," thenewspaper added.



this is deadly winter... and sad thing is that it happens just about they want to celebrate chinese new year..  what a new year it is...

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Terkandas kerana salji tebal

Oleh SUBASHINI RAJANDRA



Dalam tempoh satu abad, China mencatat sejarah salji terburukapabila berjuta-juta penduduknya terkandas ketika ingin pulang kekampung menyambut perayaan.


DERETAN bas yang diselimuti salji tebal di Anhui, China.

KABUS tebal yang melanda di kebanyakan kawasan di bahagian selatanChina, membangkitkan masalah besar kepada jutaan pekerja yang terkandasakibat salji buruk yang menimpa dalam tempoh 100 tahun. Kabus tebal initelah mengurangkan jarak penglihatan kepada kurang daripada 100 meterdi beberapa wilayah utama.

ORANG ramai berasak-asak membeli tiket kereta api untuk pulang berhari raya.

Pakar meteorologi atau cuaca turut mengeluarkan amaran tentangkeadaan salji yang akan bertambah buruk dengan disusuli hujan dan hujanbeku. Di stesen kereta api Guangzhou, seorang wanita mati dipijak olehpenumpang kereta api selepas ribuan mereka berasak-asak untuk kembalike kampung halaman di kala menyambut Tahun Baru Cina.

揅ukup merbahaya situasi di sini kerana terlalu ramai orang,

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China masih bergelap -- Tahun Tikus diraikan tanpa bekalan elektrik, air bersih

TONGREN, China 6 Feb.

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Sure...that is if it's dry and cold.....

Maksud aku ialah..kengkadang orang kita kata 'ehhh best la salji turun.....'

I have experienced several days of freezing temperatures ranging between -10 to -17 Celcius. But I enjoyed it!

hazak

hmmm....

last week kita pergi korea...
suhu pun -15 kt sesetengah tempat....
best mmg best...
tp lama2 seksa...

mcm mn lah agaknya org2 kt china tu tempuhi cuaca mcm tuh

sophian_hakim

masa salji tebal hari tu aku ada kat beijing..mmg takleh nak gerak...sejuk bangatt..huhuu