Climate change said to threaten big projects

Climate change threatens some of China's most important infrastructure projects, the country's top meteorologist warned in a State newspaper, adding that the country's rate of warming was higher than the global average.

Zheng Guoguang, head of China's Meteorological Administration, told the weekly newspaper Study Times that the uptick in recent weather disasters such as floods, typhoons, droughts and heat waves had a "big connection" to climate change.

Such catastrophes are a threat to big-ticket projects such as the Three Gorges Dam and a high-altitude railway to Tibet, he said.