Premier Wen in snow-hit Hunan Province

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (L) speaks by a loudspeaker to the stranded passengers at a railway station in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province on January 29, 2008. Hunan Province was hit by the biggest snowfalls since 1954, which paralyzed railways, airports, and highways in the province.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (1st L, front) shakes hands with a stranded passenger at a railway station in Changsha, Central China's Hunan Province, January 29, 2008. Hunan Province was hit by the biggest snowfalls since 1954, which paralyzed railways, airports, and highways in the province.

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Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao (3rd L) discusses relief work plan with other officials on

the way to Hunan Province in central China Monday evening, January 28, 2008.

A migrant worker holds his train ticket in his mouth as he stands in a queue on a platform at Shanghai Train Station January 28, 2008. The snow has struck as tens of millions of Chinese crowd home to celebrate the Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year, which starts on February 7 this year, an annual migration that strains train and plane services at the best of times.

Repairmen work to restore power supply after it was cut by a rare snowstorm in Xuancheng, East China's Anhui Province. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss.

A man clears snow from a car in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu Province, January 28, 2008, after the city was hit by the heaviest snowfall since 1961. Wild winter weather across China crippled energy and transport, and caused roughly 3 billion US dollars of economic loss.