snow-covered field in Xiangfan...

Workers climb up a giant snow sculpture titled "Happy Effendi", a tribute to a local folk hero at a ski resort in Urumqi. western China's Xinjiang province, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2007

A cleaner sweeps away snow as tourists walk through the Forbidden City in Beijing after an overnight snowfall Monday Jan. 21, 2008. The former Imperial Palace was the home to China's emperors for hundreds of years and was known as the Forbidden City because commoners were forbidden to enter inside its high walls.

A woman carries vegetables through a snow-covered field in Xiangfan, in central China's Hubei province Monday Jan. 21, 2008. The death toll from a heavy snowfall that created traffic chaos in central China ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday rose to 17 Tuesday as Beijing told local governments to prepare for worsening conditions.