From The China in Transition blog:
The opening of the National People’s Congress (NPC) annual session in Beijing, aided by earlier heavy snow, caused the traffic in the capital to a nearly full stop on Monday.
Many people were forces to abandon buses on their way to work and walked on feet, and about 27 percent of the city’s work goers were late on Monday morning, according to a blog kept by the staff of china.org.cn, a website affiliated with the State Council Information Office. [Full Text]