China's Tongliao mobilizes forces to tackle record snowstorm (10)

Aerial photo shows armed police officers cleaning snow at a railway switchyard in Tongliao, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Nov. 11, 2021. Tongliao City in north China's Inner Mongolia has been walloped by the strongest snowstorm ever recorded. Faced with the recent cold weather and snowstorms, the local authorities have launched an emergency program to ensure transportation safety, power supply as well as agricultural and husbandry production, guaranteeing people's normal life. (Xinhua/Lian Zhen)