Heat Wave In China
Author: alice Date: 14 November, Category: Funny, Visits 5363
A high temperature alerts were issued as a record-setting summer heat wave continued to bake most parts of south China. (Reuters)
A 19-year-old man with cerebral palsy lies on his bed in Shenyang, Liaoning province July 23, 2013. Seven firefighters, who were called by the man's mother, helped to carry her more than 150 kilograms son to the bathroom for a shower. The mother told local media she was grateful that the firefighters saved her out of the exhaustion of cleaning up her son with a towel and a basin of water in the bedroom under the summer heat. (REUTERS/China Daily)
A man splashes water on a pig next to a van which overturned while carrying 12 pigs on a highway in Fuzhou, Fujian province August 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Stringer)
A child enjoys the water in a public swimming pool at a suburban area of Shanghai August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
Militia cut off damaged crops under the summer heat after a drought hit Loudi, Hunan province, July 31, 2013. The city has seen more than a month of the summer heat with it's highest temperatures soaring up to 35 degree celsius (95 Fahrenheit). (REUTERS/Stringer)
A man sitting on a beach chair in his swimming trunks takes his meal at a small table partially dipped into the Hanjiang river to escape the summer heat, as other swimmers look on under a bridge in Wuhan, Hubei province July 28, 2013. (REUTERS/China Daily)
A boy herds goats by a nearly dried up pond at a village in Shaoyang county, Hunan province, July 28, 2013. The village received no rainfall for 40 days after June 20, local media reported. (REUTERS/Stringer)
A man with his shirt lifted up walks along a wall bearing traditional paintings at a shopping district in Beijing August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon)
Chinese tourists walk past a huge thermometer near the Flaming Mountain (back) in Turpan, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, July 30, 2013. The 12-metres (39.4 feet) high thermometer shows the surface temperature of the area which reaches 78 degrees Celsius (172.4 degrees Fahrenheit). (REUTERS/China Daily)
Visitors crowd an artificial wave pool at a tourist resort to escape the summer heat in Daying county of Suining, Sichuan province, July 27, 2013. (REUTERS/China Daily)
A giant panda lies on blocks of ice to cool off from the summer heat at its zoo enclosure in Wuhan, Hubei province August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/China Daily)
People take a nap on a couch at an IKEA store to escape the summer heat in Beijing, August 5, 2013. (REUTERS/Stringer)
Students take pictures of themselves as they sleep on mats laid out on the floor inside a gymnasium at Huazhong Normal University in Wuhan, Hubei province June 21, 2013. (REUTERS/Stringer)
A woman participates in a water fight at People Square in Shanghai July 21, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
A child cools off from hot weather in a fountain at People's Square in Shanghai August 7, 2013. (REUTERS/Aly Song)
A woman uses an umbrella to protect herself from the sun as she crosses a busy street in downtown Shanghai August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Locals try to shield themselves from the sun as they walk along a pedestrian street in downtown Shanghai August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/Carlos Barria)
Children sleep on the floor of the Qiaosi subway station in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province July 25, 2013. More than 600 people cooled off inside the subway station as temperatures in the city hit a high of 40 degrees Centigrade during a regional power outage on Thursday. (REUTERS/Stringer)
A labourer takes a break as he works under the sun at a construction site in Shanghai August 6, 2013. (REUTERS/Aly Song)