From Business Week: Snowstorms shut 30 highways across China, disrupting travel on a day when more than 66 million people were expected to take to the roads for the nation’s biggest festival of the year. As of 10:00 a.m.,...
Read MoreSnowstorms have been responsible for 40 deaths and for destroying almost 500,000 acres of crops: The snowfall is the heaviest in the northern and central provinces of Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Shandong and Henan since...
Read MoreA recent report, purported to come from the Beijing News (新京报), exposes massive electrical pole failures in Guizhou during this winter’s freak snowstorms. Despite appearing to have been removed from the newspaper’s...
Read MoreOverseas political commentator Liang Jing wrote following essay, thanks to Dr. David Kelly for the translation: A very important item of information spread around Beijing’s dining and mahjong tables during Spring Festival...
Read MoreWhen I was in elementary school, our geography teacher told us how Lanzhou city in the northwest desert area of China had suffered from a water shortage. He said the city relied on the water cart system which supplied water...
Read MoreMillions of Chinese people suffered from the severe snowstorms recently. However, the big snow brought not only suffering to people but also relaxing moments. A post on Tianya.com collects the pictures of snowmen people built...
Read MoreChina Media Project translates an op-ed from the Yanzhao Metropolis Daily which argues that China needs more input from civil society groups to effectively deal with crises like the current snow emergency: But there are...
Read MoreFrom the Christian Science Monitor: The snowstorms currently sweeping China have wreaked havoc with millions of people’s New Year travel plans and caused $3 billion worth of losses, including thousands of acres of winter...
Read MoreRelief efforts continue in Yunnan, where a remote village was decimated by a landslide last Friday. 46 people died, including 19 children. China Daily reported that 29 of the victims were from a single clan, now reduced to just...
Read MoreThis year, the annual migration of China’s workers home for the Spring festival holiday is starting earlier, due to the troubled economy and fears about bad weather. From AP: For Huang and many others, the trip begins at...
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