A child holding a portable fan amid a yellow alert for heat, in Shanghai. - Reuters
BEIJING: China warned on Wednesday (July 23) against the risk of power supply disruptions as people struggled to keep cool in record heat baking large swathes of the country, which also spurred warnings to the elderly to guard against heat stroke.
Power supply suffers while demand surges, exceeding 1.5 billion kilowatts for the first time last week, energy officials said, in a third new record for China this month, when its first nationwide alert on heat-related health risks also went out.
