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Yaan City in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province is blanketed with spring snow due to a plunge of the temperature, March 21, 2021. The city was hit by a cold spell, a sudden and short period of cold weather that interrupted the first warm days in spring. (Photo: China News Service/Huang Gang)
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Yaan City in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province is blanketed with spring snow due to a plunge of the temperature, March 21, 2021. The city was hit by a cold spell, a sudden and short period of cold weather that interrupted the first warm days in spring. (Photo: China News Service/Huang Gang)
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Yaan City in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province is blanketed with spring snow due to a plunge of the temperature, March 21, 2021. The city was hit by a cold spell, a sudden and short period of cold weather that interrupted the first warm days in spring. (Photo: China News Service/Huang Gang)
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Yaan City in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province is blanketed with spring snow due to a plunge of the temperature, March 21, 2021. The city was hit by a cold spell, a sudden and short period of cold weather that interrupted the first warm days in spring. (Photo: China News Service/Huang Gang)