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The heat wave has been going on for a month in China.
Roofs melted and flowed down, and street trees caught fire.
Shanghai also recorded the highest temperature in 149 years.
Correspondent Kim Ji-sung from Beijing.
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The roof slab of a museum has fallen off.
The adhesive on the roof melted in the hot sun and flowed down.
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The Coke bottle delivered by courier swelled up like a pufferfish, and smoke constantly spewed out from the street trees.
Street trees spontaneously ignited due to the continued heatwave.
[Hangzhou resident: This tree caught fire by itself.
It spontaneously ignited.
Even firefighters were dispatched.]
Recently, the temperature at 71 Chinese meteorological stations has set record highs, but in some places it exceeded 44 degrees Celsius.
Shanghai recorded 40.9 degrees Celsius, the highest in 149 years since weather observations began in 1873.
[Chinese Meteorological Bureau Chief Researcher: Since June 13, the high temperature phenomenon has continued for 31 days, affecting more than 900 million people.]
Here in Beijing, the highest temperature during the day has risen to 35 degrees Celsius.
When I pour water over the road like this, it dries out in a few minutes.
The rails are cooled with ice to prevent them from being deformed by high temperatures, and the use of cooling products is rapidly increasing, resulting in overloads and explosions of transformers.
At least two people have died in China so far, and more than 10 are in critical condition.
A heat wave warning has been issued in 11 of China's 31 provinces.
China's meteorological authorities have predicted that global warming is the biggest cause of the heat wave and that the heat wave will continue for the time being.