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.

A rescue man carries an 80-year-old woman, out of Jinlian village in Longnan county, east China's Jiangxi Province, Feb. 3, 2008. Some 1761 people in Jinlian village trapped for days of frozen weather without electricity and water supply were rescued successfully on Sunday.

A soldier eats snow to quench his thirst during a break on Feb. 3, 2008 on the Beijing-Zhuhai expressway, a north-south trunk road, where Chinese soldiers tried their best to clean ice and snow.

Exhausted Chinese soldiers fall asleep in a truck after they had cleaned snow and ice for eight days and nights on the highway, a major north-south trunk road, Feb. 4, 2008.

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.

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 tower which collapsed under the weight of ice.

(Xinhua News Agency February 13, 2008)