Unseen in last 30 years, big snow recently hit southern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Hotan and Kashi prefectures suffered the heaviest. The snow was in a depth of 13 centimeters and the temperature reduced sharply into 26 degrees Celsius below zero. Statistics show that 3,527 persons in Pishan, Moyu and Yutian counties of Hetan Prefecture suffered from it and 1,340 livestock died of it. In Yecheng County of Kashi, 4,000 livestock were frozen to death and 12,000 livestock were stranded. This snow disaster caused the economic loss of several million yuan...