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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