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A Chinese man has been left with horrific burns after he fainted and fell onto the scorching ground which started to melt his skin.
These pictures show Yang Hao lying on a hospital bed in Changsha in central China's Hunan province after he was diagnosed with heatstroke.
The painful burn marks on his back were caused after he fainted and hit the scalding ground.
Much of China is in the grip of a summer heatwave with temperatures reaching 42C in some parts of the country.
It has been so hot that people have been seen grilling shrimp on manhole covers while there have been reports of eggs hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself.
The heat wave - the worst in at least 140 years in some parts - has left dozens of people dead and pushed thermometers above 40C (104F) in at least 40 cities and counties, mostly in the south and east of the country.
Authorities have declared the heat a 'level 2' weather emergency for the first time. The category is usually reserved for typhoons and flooding.
Outside a shopping centre in the financial hub of Shanhai, 17-year-old student Xu Sichen said: 'It is just hot - like in a food steamer.'
Her friend He Jiali, also 17, complained that her mobile phone had turned into a 'grenade'.
'I'm so worried that the phone will explode while I'm using it,' she said.
Extreme heat began hitting Shanghai and several eastern and southern provinces in early July and is expected to grip much of China until mid-August.
At least 10 people have died of heat stroke in the city over the past month, including a 64-year-old Taiwanese sailor, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Wu Guiyun, 50, who has a part-time job making food deliveries in Shanghai, said she has been trying to linger inside air-conditioned offices for as long as possible whenever she brings in a takeout order.
She said: 'It's so hot that I can hardly breathe.'
The highest temperature overall was recorded in the eastern city of Fenghua, which recorded its historic high of 42.7C (108.9F) on July 24.
On
Tuesday, the director of the China Meteorological Administration
activated a 'level 2' emergency response to the persistent heat wave.
This level requires around-the-clock staffing, the establishment of an emergency command centre and frequent briefings.
Some Chinese in heat-stricken cities have been cooking shrimps, eggs and bacon in skillets placed directly on manhole covers or on pavements that have heated up to 60C (140F).
In one photo displayed prominently in the China Daily newspaper, a boy tended to shrimps and an egg in a pan over a manhole cover in eastern Chinese city of Jinan.
In the port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, glass has cracked in the heat, vehicles have self-combusted, and a highway billboard caught fire by itself, sending up black smoke in the air, according to China Central Television.
The broadcaster said the heat might have shorted an electrical circuit on the billboard.
In the southern province of Hunan, a housewife grabbed several eggs stored at room temperature only to find half-hatched chicks, state media reported.
A joke making the rounds: 'The only difference between me and barbequed meat is a little bit of cumin.'
A Chinese man has been left with horrific burns after he fainted and fell onto the scorching ground which started to melt his skin.
These pictures show Yang Hao lying on a hospital bed in Changsha in central China's Hunan province after he was diagnosed with heatstroke.
The painful burn marks on his back were caused after he fainted and hit the scalding ground.
Painful: This picture shows the horrific
injuries sustained by Yang Hao after he fainted by a roadside and was
badly burnt on his back whilst lying on the scalding ground during
China's record-breaking heatwave
Sore: Mr Hao has been diagnosed with heatstroke after temperatures in China reached an astonishing 41C
Much of China is in the grip of a summer heatwave with temperatures reaching 42C in some parts of the country.
It has been so hot that people have been seen grilling shrimp on manhole covers while there have been reports of eggs hatching without incubators and a highway billboard has mysteriously caught fire by itself.
The heat wave - the worst in at least 140 years in some parts - has left dozens of people dead and pushed thermometers above 40C (104F) in at least 40 cities and counties, mostly in the south and east of the country.
Authorities have declared the heat a 'level 2' weather emergency for the first time. The category is usually reserved for typhoons and flooding.
Shrimply amazing: A child demonstrates how raw
shrimp and an egg are fried in a pan on a manhole cover on a hot summer
day in China's eastern province of Shandong
Outside a shopping centre in the financial hub of Shanhai, 17-year-old student Xu Sichen said: 'It is just hot - like in a food steamer.'
Her friend He Jiali, also 17, complained that her mobile phone had turned into a 'grenade'.
'I'm so worried that the phone will explode while I'm using it,' she said.
Extreme heat began hitting Shanghai and several eastern and southern provinces in early July and is expected to grip much of China until mid-August.
At least 10 people have died of heat stroke in the city over the past month, including a 64-year-old Taiwanese sailor, the official Xinhua News Agency said.
Shell shocked: These newly born chicks hatched
from a box of eggs in Zhengzhou, Hunan province, such were the searing
temperatures
Hatching: The temperatures have been ripe for incubating eggs, which have grown into fully fledged chicks
Chicken tonight: This dog shows a little too much interest in the newly hatched chicks as he licks his lips
Wu Guiyun, 50, who has a part-time job making food deliveries in Shanghai, said she has been trying to linger inside air-conditioned offices for as long as possible whenever she brings in a takeout order.
She said: 'It's so hot that I can hardly breathe.'
The highest temperature overall was recorded in the eastern city of Fenghua, which recorded its historic high of 42.7C (108.9F) on July 24.
Well watered: This gardener tends to his
vegetable patch on the top of an office building in Nanchang, Jiangxi
province The 1,000sqm field grows more than 10 kinds of vegetables,
providing food for the staff canteen
This level requires around-the-clock staffing, the establishment of an emergency command centre and frequent briefings.
Some Chinese in heat-stricken cities have been cooking shrimps, eggs and bacon in skillets placed directly on manhole covers or on pavements that have heated up to 60C (140F).
In one photo displayed prominently in the China Daily newspaper, a boy tended to shrimps and an egg in a pan over a manhole cover in eastern Chinese city of Jinan.
In the port city of Ningbo in Zhejiang province, glass has cracked in the heat, vehicles have self-combusted, and a highway billboard caught fire by itself, sending up black smoke in the air, according to China Central Television.
The broadcaster said the heat might have shorted an electrical circuit on the billboard.
In the southern province of Hunan, a housewife grabbed several eggs stored at room temperature only to find half-hatched chicks, state media reported.
A joke making the rounds: 'The only difference between me and barbequed meat is a little bit of cumin.'
Pressure: A lightning bolt streaks across the
sky above a replica of the Eiffel Tower at the Tianducheng development
in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province
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