Special Report * China - War on snow havoc
Beijing,China -Xinhua -3 March 2008: -- Chinese travelers made 2.02 billion bus trips during the Spring Festival travel season, down 1.6 percent over the same period of last year, Xinhua learnt from the Ministry of Communications on Monday... The ministry attributed the decrease to the unprecedented snow havoc, which paralyzed trunk lines, forced highway closures, caused traffic congestion and killed dozens of people in snow-related traffic accidents... According to He Jianzhong, the ministry spokesman, bus transportation in some snow-hit provinces, including Guizhou, Hunan, Anhui and Huibei, was down by 10 percent to 60 percent year on year during the travel season...
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