Chinese Winter Wonderland

The severe winter weather that has caused chaos in China in recent weeks has cost the economy more than $15bn (£7.6bn), says the Chinese government.

Homes, businesses and crops across the country have been damaged by the heavy snowfall, which is the worst China has experienced in five decades.

In addition, electricity and water supplies have been cut and rail services have had to be suspended.

The freak snowstorms have killed at least 107 people across the country.

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The severe snow storms in China is expected to cost 15 billion dollars. 107 people died because of the storm, 90,000 square miles of farmland was damaged and millions of insurance claims are pending. Electric workers are struggling to repair power supplies in most of the country.

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(Follow Up) Transport Chaos in China Worsen Due to Snow

Travelers are waiting at railway stations around the region,

The heaviest snow in decades is continuing to cause chaos across China ahead of the busy Lunar New Year holiday, state media have reported.

Road and rail links have been paralyzed, thwarting travelers trying to return home for the festivities.

A blocked rail line has stranded about 500,000 people in the southern city of Guangzhou and officials are working to prevent riots, reports say.

In Guizhou, 25 people died when a bus plunged from an icy road, Xinhua said. The snowstorms, which began on 10 January, have now affected 80 million people across 14 provinces.

The central provinces of Hunan and Hubei have been hardest hit, but eastern provinces are also affected.

Houses and agricultural land have been destroyed, leading to economic losses totaling Y22.09bn ($3bn, £1.5bn), Xinhua said.

At least 24 people have been killed in weather-related accidents, the agency said, but this figure appears not to include traffic accidents.

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As I had reported earlier, China is in a state of emergency. When I last reported the migration had just begun and only around 100,000 people were being stranded (which in China terms isn't that many) but now the BBC is report that 500,000 people were stranded in the city of Guangzhou due to the heavy snow knocking the rail-road offline between there and Beijing. also there also seem to be more trajic issues being reported. 25 have died in Guizhou due to a bus over turning on a icy road, but worse than that is the economic loss. A projected $3bn loss in houses and agriculture. If more on this comes along I will report back.

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Snow hampers China New Yeat plans

Chinese officials have been ordered to 'battle against disaster Chinese authorities have ordered urgent measures to be put in place to fight nationwide transport chaos caused by severe weather conditions.

Ice and snowfall caused power cuts that left 100,000 people stranded at train stations in southern China on Sunday.

Forecasters predict the bad weather will continue for a week, causing travel misery in the run-up to the Lunar New Year holiday on 7 February.

Nearly 18 million people are due to visit relatives during the period.

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This Article is significant to China because Chinese new year is the worlds largest migration of people due to the fact that everyone in the cities go home to there villages to get in touch with family. Due to the largest impact that the snow and bad weather has hampered this process of people moving from the cities nearly 100,000 people were stranded in train stations around southern China, I plan on fallowing up this story at a later date when people begin to migrate back to the cities

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