A woman wearing a face cover carrying an umbrella walks among the crowd in a hot and sunny day in Beijing, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A woman uses a fan to block from the sun as she walks with her companion in an unseasonably hot day in Beijing, Sunday, June 16, 2024. China is being buffeted by two weather extremes, with heavy rain and flooding in parts of the south and a heat wave and potential drought in the north. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A man wearing a face cover uses his mobile phone as he walks during an unseasonably hot day in Beijing, Sunday, June 16, 2024. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





A giant statue of Emperor Yan and Emperor Huang in Zhengzhou, Henan province, China, June 16, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)





Three people wear face-kinis to cool off in the water at the No. 1 Bathing Beach in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, June 17, 2024. (Photo credit should read CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images)





A man riding an electric delivery bike with water bottles waits to cross a street on a hot day in Beijing on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a sun protection mask rides a bicycle across a road on a hot day in Beijing on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A man uses a bag to shelter from the sun as he waits to cross a street on a hot day in Beijing on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A woman wearing a sun protection mask rides a motorcycle along a road on a hot day in Beijing on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





A woman uses an umbrella to shelter from the sun as she rides a bicycle along a street on a hot day in Beijing on June 18, 2024. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





This photo taken on June 18, 2024 shows a man looking at the debris on a muddy street in the aftermath of flooding from heavy storms in Meizhou, in southern China's Guangdong province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This photo taken on June 18, 2024 shows people cleaning the debris in the aftermath of flooding from heavy storms in Meizhou, in southern China's Guangdong province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





This photo taken on June 18, 2024 shows a man squatting on a muddy street in the aftermath of flooding from heavy storms in Meizhou, in southern China's Guangdong province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Villager walks on muddy streets as torrential rains cause flooding on June 19, 2024 in Meizhou, Guangdong Province of China. Affected by heavy rainfall, heavy rainstorm occurred in many places of Meizhou, and landslides and waterlogging occurred in some areas. Authorities in coastal province of southeastern Guangdong province reported five deaths while 15 others are missing. (Photo by John Ricky/Anadolu via Getty Images)





This aerial photo shows flooded areas after storms in Guilin, in southwestern China's Guangxi province on June 20, 2024. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Yoga lovers are practicing yoga at Fengfeng Health Theme Cultural Park in Handan, China, on June 20, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)





In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, rescuers look under a vehicle in a flood-affected area in Sishui Township of Pingyuan County, Meizhou City, southern China's Guangdong Province, Thursday, June 20, 2024. Multiple people have died and several people were reported missing after downpours in recent days caused historic flooding in rural parts of Guangdong province in southern China, while authorities warned Friday of more flooding ahead in other parts of the country. (Photo by Lu Hanxin/Xinhua via AP Photo)





A Long March 2-C rocket carrying a satellite jointly developed by China and France dubbed the Space Variable Objects Monitor (SVOM), lifts off from a space base in Xichang, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on June 22, 2024. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





A man rows a boat at the Qionghai National Tourism Resort in Xichang, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on June 23, 2024. (Photo by Adek Berry/AFP Photo)





Tourists are watching the sunrise from a viewing platform on the Three Gorges Dam in Yichang, China, on June 23, 2024. (Photo by Costfoto/NurPhoto/Rex Features/Shutterstock)