Lights in a Shanghai office building have been turned off due to an electricity shortage following temperatures above 35 C (95 F) for 18 consecutive days, July 29, 2003. The Shanghai municipal government announced Tuesday that all landscape lighting around the city will be temporarily suspended and restrictions will be imposed on electricity supplies to factories and non-essential engineering projects. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A girl plays in a fountain to cool herself off in Xiamen, South China's Fujian Province July 29, 2003. Xiamen has suffered through 28 consecutive days of high temperatures this summer. [newsphoto.com.cn]

A policeman measures the extent to which a road has buckled due to the excessive heat in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei Province July 28, 2003. The piece of road, 11 metres wide and 5 metres long, raised about 0.6 metres above the road. The city, known as one of China's four "heating stoves'' in summer, has endured continued high temperatures over 40 degrees centigrade since July 24. The buckled road was repaired Tuesday and the traffic has returned normal. [newsphoto.com.cn]

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