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After
continuing being h{#blank#}1{#/blank#} by heavy snowstorms in South and Central
China, people there finally greeted the New Year with fine weather, w{#blank#}2{#/blank#} was
a very exciting news to those who had s{#blank#}3{#/blank#} a hard life without electric
p{#blank#}4{#/blank#}, water and food, and also
good news to those who wanted to go home for the Spring Festival.
Beginning in mid-January, 2008, a series of
strong snowstorms in South and Central China did great d{#blank#}5{#/blank#} to
people's lives as well as to industry production, transport and farming. H{#blank#}6{#/blank#}, all the people, t{#blank#}7{#/blank#} with PLA men, worked day and night and finally
s{#blank#}8{#/blank#} in fighting the natural d{#blank#}9{#/blank#}. This has once again proved that we
Chinese people will never g{#blank#}10{#/blank#} in to any difficulty.
