February 13, 2008 

Chinese soldiers lift a child among the stranded passengers at the railway station in Guangzhou, the capital city of south China's Guangdong Province Friday, Feb. 1, 2008. [Xinhua Photo]

A rescuer carries an 80-year-old woman out of Jinlian village in Longnan county, East China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 3, 2008. After being trapped for days in frozen weather and without electricity and water supply, 1,761 people in the village were rescued successfully on Sunday. [Xinhua Photo]

Photo taken on Feb. 3, 2008 shows a soldier eating snow to quench his thirst during a break on the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, a north-south trunk road, where Chinese soldiers made their best to clean ice and snow. [Xinhua Photo]

Exhausted Chinese soldiers fall asleep in a truck after cleaning snow and ice for eight days and nights on the highway, a major north-south trunk road, Feb. 4, 2008. The Chinese officials announced the Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway was fully reopened Monday morning. [Xinhua Photo]

Staff members work in snow to repair the electricity grid damaged by heavy snow in Xuancheng, Jan. 28, 2008. [Xinhua Photo]

An electrician works to restore power supply in Yihuang County, East China's Jiangxi Province, Jan. 31, 2008. The power network in the county was damaged after days of snow and sleet. [Xinhua Photo]

People in Changsha, the capital city of central China's Hunan Province, bid farewell to Luo Haiwen, Luo Changming and Zhou Jinghua, who were taken down by the power pylon when they were repairing the electricity lines. The tower collapsed under the weight of ice. [Xinhua Photo]

Two men give a hand to a driver whose car is stranded by snow in Kaiyang county, the southwestern Guizhou Province, Feb. 5, 2008.  [Xinhua Photo]