Orange warning issued as cold wave sweeps across China

his aerial photo taken on Dec 27, 2020 shows the snow-covered Taklimakan Desert in Yopurga county in Kashgar, northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. - Xinhua

BEIJING (China Daily/ANN): China is set to encounter a freezing cold front as a cold air mass is sweeping across the country from north to south, the National Meteorological Center warned on Monday (Dec 28).

The centre issued an orange cold wave warning on Monday, the highest in the three-tier ranking, followed by yellow and blue. The centre issued its last orange warning in 2016.