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Snow blankets much of China, including parts of the south, where real cold is an infrequent visitor.

It has been repeated over and over again that there has been nothing like this in 50 years.

All across China, power cables have drooped and snapped under the weight of the ice, hanging heavy like stalactites. Highways have been closed because of the snowfall, leaving drivers stranded in their cars or in service stations awaiting rescue.

More dramatically still, trains have been knocked out of service on the country's most important routes, leaving mind-boggling numbers of passengers, most of them migrant workers, without a way home for the annual Spring Festival, the most important holiday on the Chinese calendar.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao, the figure who excels at putting a human face on Chinese politics like none other these days, took the extraordinary step of flying to the southern city of Gu