The Negative Influence of China’s Worst Snowstorm
China’s worst snowstorm in 50 years have brought a series of negative influence in many ways , such as migrant workers , transport network and people’s daily life. First of all, the bad weather, which started on 10 January, has left millions of migrant workers stranded at station. And the heavy snowfalls even made it more difficult to get coal and food to stranded passengers. Second, it was reported that there were about 20,000 trucks and cars stranded on the motorway between Guangdong and Hunan each day during the period of snowstorm. And the bad weather put huger pressure on the transport network for the railway expected to carry 180 million people between 23 January and 2 March and at least 15 airports were closed and 6,500 flights were cancelled during these days. Third, the badly snowstorm caused people’s life more inconvenient. In many areas, people couldn’t use their electric facilities because of electricity shortage and it took people longer time to finish their houseworkThe sever snowstorm brought chaos to China in many ways. And in order to cope with the snowstorm, Chinese leaders took a series of measures, including send soldiers to help clearing roads.