Dried-up rivers, scorching heat and power rationing in parts of China are disrupting factories and threatening crop yields, adding to the country’s economic strains and echoing struggles with extreme weather elsewhere around the world.
Parts of China are suffering their worst heat wave in six decades, with temperatures as high as 110 degrees Fahrenheit in many parts of the country’s central and southwestern regions, according to state weather services, which predict that high temperatures in the south may last another two weeks.