Cold wave hits China: Beijing breaks a seven-decade cold-weather record | Top Ten Updates
China and brought blizzards in its wake, sending temperatures towards historic lows. 1)The temperature recorded at Beijing's Nanjiao weather station rose to above zero degrees Celsius on Sunday afternoon for the first time in days, state media Beijing Daily reported. 2)According to Beijing Daily, since the temperature first dropped to below zero degrees on December 11, the temperature has remained below that line for more than 300 hours.
3)Northern and northeastern parts of the country have experienced a record-breaking chill since last week, with some areas in the northeast hitting minus 40 Celsius (minus 40 Fahrenheit) and below as biting cold air flowed down from the Arctic. 4)A strong cold wave swept through most of China this month, pushing the heating capacity of some cities in northern China to its limit. 5)Several cities in the central Chinese province of Henan, southwest of Beijing, are in the grip of a winter heating supply crunch, with thermal power suppliers in the city of Jiaozuo under pressure to ensure supplies.
Heating boilers at JiaoZuo WanFang Aluminum Manufacturing, one of the major suppliers in the city, have broken down, leaving some areas in urgent need of more heat supply, state media reported on Sunday. 6) The supplier is scrambling to fix the malfunction and expects to resume supply on Dec. 26, state media reported, without specifying the number of boilers that have broken down.
7)China's central province of Henan has seen multiple system failures, as per CNN. In Jiaozuo, heating was partially halted after a malfunction at the Wanfang power plant on Friday. 8)The province's two other cities Puyang and Pingdingshan have cut heating to most government buildings and state-owned enterprises since
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