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BEIJING: China is all set to transport huge quantities of much needed vegetables, including potato, onion, and white radish, to the snow-hit regions in a couple of days.

According to China’s Ministry of Commerce, the country will allocate 400,000 tons of vegetables to ease price pressures in the southern, central and eastern regions during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.

Prices of vegetables have surged as the worst snowstorm in five decades has disrupted traffic and damaged vegetables.

The Ministry added it has so far allocated eight million candles to the regions blacked out by the severe weather, after it sent Tuesday four million to the hardest-hit regions, including Guizhou, Hunan, and Jiangxi.

Red Cross Society of China said, the snow havoc has so far killed more than 80 people, toppled 300,000 homes, damaged 90 million hectares of crops, and resulted in direct economic losses of about 11 billion U.S. dollars in 19 provinces and regions.

Chenzhou, a city hardest-hit by the snowstorm in the central province of Hunan, was not expected to get electricity supplies restored soon. Its four million residents have been left without electricity and tap water for 12 days.

China has so far managed to resume full or partial power service in 148 of the 170 counties and cities nationwide, the State Council said in a statement late Tuesday.

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