One person died and another 5,609 people were affected during the heavy snowstorm in Tongliao, North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The snowstorm, which started Friday, has affected eight counties in Tongliao, leading to about 35 million yuan in economic losses.
Many cities in northern China have suspended classes, roads and airports amid harsh snowstorms as a severe cold wave hit many parts of the country over the weekend with heavy snowfalls and plunging temperatures.
Large parts of the country, including Tianjin and Hebei Province, experienced the winter's first significant snowfall and rain on Saturday, the China Meteorological Administration said in a notice on Sunday.
Meteorologists said the cold wave will continue south, and temperatures nationwide will remain low for the next 10 days. The climate phenomenon known as La Niña brought the unusually early snow, they explained.
