Eastern China looks set to sizzle again

By 2024, more than half of the summers in eastern China will be as hot as in 2013, when the region was hit by a record-breaking heatwave and devastating drought, according to a study.

Based on current global warming trends, this will occur even if rising greenhouse gas emissions are slowed over the next decade, it said.

The summer of 2013 was the hottest on record in eastern China - 1.1 degrees C above the long-term average.