A snow-clearing vehicle removes thick snow from the No. 303 provincial highway in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]
An earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale jolted Sichuan Province at 2:28 PM on May 12.
![A snow-clearing vehicle removes thick snow from the No. 303 provincial highway in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]](http://images.china.cn/attachement/jpg/site1007/20081022/001109b42f730a68db515c.jpg "A snow-clearing vehicle removes thick snow from the No. 303 provincial highway in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday, October 21, 2008. [Photo: Xinhua]")
