Chinese students sleep off heatwave in libraries and tents

When the Chinese authorities issue warnings of the severe heat in the eastern region of the country, students leave their camp migrants in the corridors and supermarkets.

Some have completely disposed of their university campus.

“Sometimes we go to stay in hotels for air conditioning,” says a 20 -year -old university student in the northeastern city of Changchon, who rejected BBC. “There is always a few days a year where the atmosphere is unbearable.”

Hotels have become common among students who seek to avoid nights that smell of sweat in their reference, which usually includes four to eight people in a room and have no air conditioning.

But for many, this step is the last resort. “Checking the hotel is huge expenses for students,” says the student at Changchon.

So in the less despair days, a bowl of ice cubes sit in front of a small fan to calm its skilled room – what he calls “homemade air conditioner”. It was reached by the invention with the end of the semester this week.

The Sanfu season, known as “dogs of dogs”, usually begins in mid -July. But it arrived early this year, as temperatures in the eastern region rose above 40c (104F) during the past week – and millions of population were arrested.

Fears were launched about the high temperatures after reports that the guardian of the deputy had died in his room at the University of Qingdao on Sunday – which many believed to be blurred.

A statement issued by the university said on Monday that the cause of his death was “under investigation.” He said that he was found in his room in a “abnormal case” and announced his death when the paramedics arrived at the scene.

The man’s salutation quickly flowed, known among the students as “Uncle” who took care of stray cats on the campus.

“Cats do not know that the uncle has gone away. After today, many people met, but the uncle’s voice did not hear again.”

The accident also shed light on the living conditions of school and students. On Sunday, a student at the same university was sent to the hospital after suffering a stroke, Jimu News said.

Another user in Weibo wrote: “The quality of the university does not lie in the number of buildings that it has, but how ordinary people who calmly support the school process treat.”

In recent weeks, China is dealing with harsh weather – a global phenomenon with which experts have been associated with climate change.

The Chinese authorities issued sudden flood warnings on Wednesday after a hurricane fell on the eastern coast in China. The storm, which killed two in Taiwan this week, and moved through Chinese provinces in Zhejiang and Fujian.

On the other side of the country, the floods swept a bridge connecting Nepal and China. He died at least nine and remains more than ten – the Nepalese and Chinese citizen – missing.

Meanwhile, the heat waves in China have become more hot and longer.

In 2022, the arduous temperature caused more than 50,000 deaths, according to the estimates of the medical journal The Lancet. The following year, a town in Xinjiang, northwest of China, witnessed 52.5 ° C – the highest temperature recorded in China.

The year 2024 was the hottest year in China ever, as July became the most witnessed month of the country since it began to track temperatures in 1961.

“It seems that global warming has already affected our world,” says the university student in Changchon. “When I was young, the summer in the northeast was really comfortable. But the summer is now hotter.”

This year, high temperatures again tested the limits of the population.

Last week, a video clip showed a man in Zhejiang County smashing the train window to allow entry, after the train came out and the passengers hung for hours at the heat of the drainage.

In the neighboring Jiangshi district, the air conditioner restaurant has become a hot point for elderly people during the afternoon without asking for any food – to the anger of restaurant employees, local media reported.

In the northeastern province of Gillen, according to what was reported, university students sleep in tents lining up at the entrance to the air conditioner.

After reports of students in Shandong Province appeared, squatting in supermarkets and checking the nearby hotels to escape from Heet, a university was arranged for its students to sleep in the library, Hongsing News said.

Several schools in Shandong Province have announced plans to make their air -conditioned reference – an increasingly indispensable comfort.

China’s energy authorities said that air conditioning represents more than a third of the demand for the East China power network.

Chengdao University officials told local media on Monday that they also have plans to install air conditioning in the dormitories of students during the summer vacation.

It is just what a high school student in Jinan, 350 km away, needs to hear.

The teenager, who has just completed the admission exams at the college, told the BBC that he was hesitant to go to the University of Qingdao – his highest choice – because of his beating.

“Without air conditioning, the atmosphere is very hot to survive,” he says.