China issues its first drought alert of the year as authorities battle forest fires to protect crops from scorching temperatures across Yangtze river basin
Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies.
It comes after regions from Sichuan in the southwest to Shanghai in the Yangtze delta have experienced weeks of extreme heat, with government officials repeatedly citing global climate change as the cause. According to data from China's emergency ministry late on Thursday, high temperatures in July alone caused direct economic losses of 2.73 billion yuan , affecting 5.5 million people.China's National Meteorological Center renewed its high-temperature red alert on Friday, the 30th consecutive day it has issued alerts, it said on its Weibo channel.The weather agency said in its daily bulletin that 4.
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