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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