A provincial capital in southwest China has diminished outdoor advertisements, underground lighting, and signs of buildings to save energy, the official announcement said, when the area fought with an electrical crisis triggered by the highest temperature.
Mercury has surpassed 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Sichuan Province this week, triggers large -scale requests for AC and drying reservoirs in areas that depend on dams for most electricity.
The factories including joint ventures with the Toyota Japanese car giant in the Capital of the Chengdu Province have been forced to stop work, while millions of people in other cities Dazhou wrestled with rolling electricity cuts.
“Hot and humid weather has caused the city’s electricity supply for production and daily life to be pushed to its limits,” said Chengdu urban management authority in a notification on social media on Thursday.
Faced with the “Most Worse Situation”, the city for more than 20 million people – ordered the lighting of the landscape and advertising lights outdoors to be turned off in the notification issued Tuesday, the statement said.
Signs of building names will also become dark.
Chengdu Metro said in a video on a platform like Twitter China Weibo that it will also turn off ad lights and “optimize” temperatures at the station to save energy.
Photographs circulating in Weibo showed dim lights on the metro platform, footpaths and malls, with commuters running in partial darkness.
The heat burning also dries a critical Yangtze river, with the flow of water on the main stem about 50 percent lower than the average for the past five years, China News Service state media outlets reported Thursday.
Sichuan’s misery can have a wider ripple effect on the Chinese economy – this province is the main energy supplier produced by hydropower to Eastern Industrial Electricity including Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
China struggled against extreme weather in several fields, with 18 people killed and 13 were still missing after flash floods in the northwest of the country on Thursday were triggered by heavy rain.
The weather authority in East Jiangsu Province warned the driver of the risk of tire stabs on Friday because the surface temperature of several roads was ready to reach 68 degrees Celsius.
Chinese meteorology administration previously said the country was experiencing a sustainable high -temperature period since the record began in 1961.
Scientists say extreme weather around the world has become more frequent because of climate change and that urgent global cooperation is needed to slow down for the future.
The two largest greenhouse gas producers in the world are the United States and China.
But this month Beijing announced that they froze their cooperation with Washington about global warming as a protest on a visit by US Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan.