China has been experiencing a record number of hot days since March | News

The heat wave in China has increased energy demand with an increase in sales of air conditioners and portable fans.

The number of days at high temperature that China has known since mid-March is the highest registered, said an official of China Meteorological Administration.

The administration said on Wednesday that 152 observatories of national weather conditions in China had recorded temperatures at more than 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) since mid-July.

He also sent an alert to the country’s energy industry to take appropriate response measures to manage an increase in energy consumption while people turn to air conditioning and fans to tackle refined temperatures.

Last week, stifling heat extended from the densely populated city of Chongqing in the southwest of the country to Guangzhou on the coast, enveloping an area that houses more than 200 million people.

In certain parts of the central provinces of Hubei and Hunan, which are of the same size as Italy and the United Kingdom, the apparent temperatures, which are a measure of the heat of the combination of heat, humidity and wind, people feel, had to reach 50 ° C (122F) last week.

Apparent equivalent temperatures were also expected in the provinces of southern Jiangxi and Guangdong – housing populations equal to the total of Spain and Mexico.

The Chinese season of Sanfu – an agricultural scorer denoting the summit of the summer and which would have been used for more than two millennia – generally begins in mid -July and lasts at the end of August.

This year, it should take place until August 19.

In addition to putting uncomfortable life, scorching cultivated land and eroding agricultural income in China, higher temperatures can also affect manufacturing centers and disrupt operations in key ports, as well as overloaded health services.

As the second most populated country in the world, China has been the largest greenhouse gas transmitter every year since I exceeded the United States in 2006.

But it’s also a world renewable energy power which aims to make its massive carbon neutral economy by 2060, as part of global efforts to slow down the most extreme effects of climate change.