A mother and her child play in the snow at a park in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, January 15, 2008. Snow fell on many of China's eastern and central areas this week, as temperatures dropped dramatically.

 

Vehicles travel along a bridge that crosses the partially frozen Xiangjiang River in Changsha, central China's Hunan Province, January 15, 2008.

A woman walks past an ancient pagoda in snow in Hefei, east China's Anhui Province, January 15, 2008.

(Xinhua News Agency January 16, 2008)