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Border soldiers try to help cars stranded in deep snow on a road in Altay, Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Jan. 3, 2016. Nearly 100 people were trapped for hours in the snowstorm, the largest one in a decade, while temperatures dropped to minus 30 degrees Celsius. (Photo: China News Service/Shi Xiaokun)