CCTV9英语新闻：中国西北降雪降温（在线收听）

The first cold front of 2014 is sweeping across Northwest China, bringing snow and plunging temperatures.

Some cities in Northern Xinjiang have seen temperatures drop by more than 20 degrees Celsius, to hover around 23 degrees below zero. The cold front is also expected to extend to east and south China.

Many cities in the provinces of Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Hebei are expected to get their first major snowfall of the year. Shandong, Henan and Hubei provinces can expect sleet as temperatures there will drop by at least 6 degrees Celsius.

Beijing is also experiencing its coldest temperatures of the winter as night-time lows will decline to about minus ten.

Snow is seen on a man's clothes in Xiji County of Guyuan City, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Jan. 6, 2014. Guyuan City witnessed a snowfall on Monday. (Xinhua/Li Ran)