A child takes a bath in a bucket to cool off in hot weather on August 15, 2022 in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province of China. (Photo by Yang Huafeng/China News Service via Getty Images)





This photo taken on August 16, 2022 shows solar panels among Sichuan pepper field in Bijie, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





Staff carry out artificial rain seeding as part of drought relief measures prompted by a heatwave warning in Yichang, China on August 16, 2022. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)





Villagers pick marigold flowers at Weining Yi Hui and Miao Autonomous County on August 17, 2022 in Bijie, Guizhou Province of China. (Photo by Luo Dafu/VCG via Getty Images)





This photo taken on August 17, 2022 shows farmers picking up marigold flowers at a field in Bijie, in China's southwestern Guizhou province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)





A delivery man checks his phone during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, August 18, 2022. Some were killed with others missing after a flash flood in western China Thursday, as China faces both summer rains and severe heat and drought in different parts of the country. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





Residents walk with umbrellas near a puddle during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, August 18, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman wearing mask walks past construction warning sign during a rainy day in Beijing, Thursday, August 18, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A woman visits “Pixel Forest” by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, an art installation of 3000 hand-sculpted LED lights suspended from the ceiling at Tai Kwun in Hong Kong on August 18, 2022. (Photo by Isaac Lawrence/AFP Photo)





A woman in a wedding dress walks on the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels in Chongqing, China on August 18, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





People look at a dead fish on the dried-up riverbed of the Jialing river, a tributary of the Yangtze, that is approaching record-low water levels in Chongqing, China on August 18, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Robotic dogs dance during 2022 World Robot Conference at Beijing Etrong International Exhibition & Convention Center on August 18, 2022 in Beijing, China. The 2022 World Robot Conference kicked off on Thursday in Beijing. (Photo by Hou Yu/China News Service via Getty Images)





Robots that can sing and wave are shown during the World Robot Conference at the Yichuang International Conference and Exhibition Centre in Beijing in Beijing, Friday, August 19, 2022. (Photo by Ng Han Guan/AP Photo)





A robot design resembling a fish is seen at the 2022 World Robot Conference in Beijing on August 18, 2022. (Photo by Wang Zhao/AFP Photo)





Municipality workers water a tree after weeks of scorching temperatures and regional drought in Chongqing, China on August 19, 2022. (Photo by Thomas Peter/Reuters)





Gan Bingdong uses a hose to water plants near a dying chili pepper plant at his farm in Longquan village in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, August 20, 2022. Drought conditions across a swathe of China from the densely populated east across central farming provinces into eastern Tibet have “significantly increased”, the national weather agency said Saturday. The forecast called for no rain and high temperatures for at least three more days from Jiangsu and Anhui provinces northwest of Shanghai, through Chongqing and Sichuan in the southwest to the eastern part of Tibet. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





A thermometer shows a temperature of nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 F) in the shade before midday in Longquan village in southwestern China's Chongqing Municipality, Saturday, August 20, 2022. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AP Photo)





Children catch crabs on the dried out riverbed of the Jialing River, a major tributary of the Yangtze River, in Chongqing, China, 21 August 2022. China is experiencing its most severe drought and longest heat wave in decades, with the country issuing on 18 August its first nationwide drought alert in nine years and another heat wave red alert during the weekend. The extreme heat wave is affecting farm crops, power supplies and shipping routes, as water levels reach record lows. According to the Yangtze River Water Resources Commission, rainfall in the Yangtze River basin fell around 30 percent in July and was 60 percent lower than normal standards in August, the lowest since the same period in 1961. Part of the Yangtze river channel flowing through the urban area of Chongqing dried up and approaches record-low water levels in the city. (Photo by EPA/EFE/Stringer)





Residents fan themselves as they chat with each other outside a residential complex in Beijing, Sunday, August 21, 2022. (Photo by Andy Wong/AP Photo)





This aerial photo taken on August 21, 2022 shows high school students taking part in a military education and training session ahead of the new semester in Handan in China's northern Hebei province. (Photo by AFP Photo/China Stringer Network)