BEIJING: Schools have been suspended and emergency workers put on standby in China as the country braces for historically cold weather, including 30-year lows in places, the government and state media said.
At 1pm yesterday, it was already a biting -28°C in Yakeshi in Inner Mongolia, with Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province in the northeast at -19°C and Changchun in neighbouring Jilin at -17°C.
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