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In this photo taken shortly after midnight on August 9, 2018, a man sleeps in front of a shopping mall along Nanjing East Road, a popular pedestrian street filled with shoppers and tourists during the day, to escape the heat of residential apartments in Shanghai. Normally bustling Nanjing East Road has turned into an open- air slumber party on recent nights as local residents try to beat the heat of their cramped nearby homes by sleeping outside on benches or directly on the pavement. Many homes in some of Shanghai' s low- rise older neighbourhoods lack air conditioning, while residents that do have it will often seek ways to keep electricity bills from skyrocketing during summer. (Photo by Johannes Eisele/AFP Photo)
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