Chinese city experiences coldest temperature in nation’s records

A woman wears a face mask and a rabbit headgear in freezing cold temperatures as she heads to a temple fair at the Yuanmingyuan Garden during the second day of the Lunar New Year of the Rabbit in Beijing, on Jan 23, 2023. - AP

BEIJING (Bloomberg): A cold spell that spread across China last week broke records on Sunday (Jan 23), the coldest day the country says it has ever documented.

The temperature in Mohe, a city in northern China’s Heilongjiang province, dropped to -53C (-63.4F) on Jan. 22, according to a post published on the official social media account of the Heilongjiang Meteorological Bureau. That beat the country’s previous record low of -52.3C (-62.1F), which occurred in 1969.