Snowstorms have swept across a vast area of north China, disrupting traffic, grounding flights and slowing bullet trains in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

In Beijing, thousands of people and hundreds of vehicles were sent out to clear the city's streets Sunday while nearly 300 flights were cancelled at Beijing Capital International Airport. Local education authorities say schools in mountainous areas of Beijing will be closed on Monday due to the snowfall.

Meanwhile, the Beijing Meteorological Station on Sunday issued alerts for icy roads and possible blizzard conditions. Officials in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region issued an alert for snowstorms, calling for the maintenance of roads, railways and telecommunications facilities.

Additional snow was expected to hit Inner Mongolia and the northern provinces of Shanxi and Hebei as well as Beijing and Tianjin on Sunday and Monday.

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