BEIJING – Sweltering temperatures across China are killing livestock and stretching power grids, an early heat wave that portends another summer of disruption for Asia’s industry and food supply.
Extreme heat is unusual so early in the summer, and particularly treacherous, given neither humans nor animals have adjusted. It is, though, becoming more common as the climate changes. That’s posing a grave risk to agriculture and industrial activity in China, especially around the Yangtze river basin, the country’s major rice-producing region, badly hit by water scarcity in 2022.
Blistering spring and early summer months have already been testing the resilience of much of South and South-east Asia. Vietnam isas heat compounds low coal supply, depleted reservoirs and failures at old power plants. Mr Truong Thu My, research director of energy and utilities at Ho Chi Minh City Securities Corporation, said Tuesday that it was the first time rolling blackouts have hit industrial parks, while outages in residential areas are longer and in the evenings.
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