At 5 o'clock on the 12th, it was snowing in Heihe City, Heilongjiang Province.
At 8:10, the Heihe City Meteorological Observatory issued a yellow warning signal for road icing. At 11:30, the blizzard warning signals of Wudalianchi, Xunke, Bei'an and Sun Wu were upgraded to blizzard orange warning signals.
In response to the ice and snow weather, the relevant departments of Heihe City launched an emergency plan to mobilize personnel and snow-clearing equipment to ensure the normal production and life of the masses under extreme weather.
On duty post on Huancheng South Road in Heihe City, traffic police are directing traffic. There are 70 groups of police forces in the urban area to ensure traffic safety at peak posts, school guard posts and major intersections, and escort citizens for safe travel.
As of press time, Heihe City has invested more than 460 police officers and 137 police vehicles, and implemented temporary traffic control on highways such as Jihei, Nenshuang, Suibei, Yiqi, Beimo, and Dan-A and Heijia highways in Heihe area. .
At present, Heihe City has dispatched nearly 20 sets of large-scale equipment, and more than 1,000 people are doing snow removal operations.
(CCTV reporter Yu Wenbo and Feng Zhiyuan)