{"id":11329,"date":"2023-11-08T12:49:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/chinas-northeast-hit-by-unseasonable-blizzard-as-heavy-snow-causes-mass-disruption\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T12:49:42","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T12:49:42","slug":"chinas-northeast-hit-by-unseasonable-blizzard-as-heavy-snow-causes-mass-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/08\/chinas-northeast-hit-by-unseasonable-blizzard-as-heavy-snow-causes-mass-disruption\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s northeast hit by unseasonable blizzard as heavy snow\u00a0causes mass disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swathes of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country\u2019s first major blizzard of the season.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The first snowfall in northeast China usually takes place between late November and early December, state-run news outlet The Paper reported, citing a chief weather forecaster from China\u2019s National Meteorological Center.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In Heilongjiang, China\u2019s northernmost province, the railway operator halted 51 passenger trains on Tuesday due to the snowstorm. Harbin, the provincial capital, canceled more than 400 flights at its international airport on Monday, while some smaller airports in the province canceled all flights.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Schools, kindergartens, and off-campus training institutions in most parts of Harbin were suspended on Monday and Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In the city of Jiamusi, authorities are investigating after a gymnasium collapsed on Monday amid the snowstorm, killing three students who were trapped inside, according to state news agency Xinhua.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Seven middle school students were playing basketball at the sports club when the roof collapsed on them, Xinhua reported. Three escaped while four others were trapped, the report said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The cause of the collapse remains under investigation. The gym was completed in 2018 and passed a safety inspection in 2020, according to Xinhua.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      This is the second gymnasium collapse in Heilongjiang in recent months. In July, after days of heavy rain, the roof of a school gym in Qiqihar city collapsed onto a student volleyball team, killing 11 people.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      The two incidents have sparked public anger and raised questions over the quality and safety of constructions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      Harbin issued a red blizzard alert \u2013 the highest in China\u2019s four-tier warning system \u2013 on Sunday and Monday.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      In the neighboring province of Jilin, more than 200 expressway entrances were closed on Monday due to heavy snowfall.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder\">      China\u2019s national weather forecaster issued an orange blizzard alert \u2013 the second highest level after red \u2013 on Saturday and renewed it on Monday for parts of Jilin, Heilongjiang and Inner Mongolia. The alert was lifted on Tuesday.  <\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unusually early heavy snowfall blanketed swathes of northeastern China this week, forcing airlines to cancel flights, halting trains and shutting schools and roads in the country\u2019s first major blizzard of the season. The first snowfall in northeast China usually takes place between late November and early December, state-run news outlet The Paper reported, citing a <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11330,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}