Chinese students sleep from heat wave in libraries and tents

As Chinese authorities have issued warnings about exceptional heat in the eastern region of the country, students leave their stewed hostels to camp in corridors and supermarkets.

Some of them have completely discarded their campuses.

“Sometimes we go out to stay in air conditioning hotels,” says a 20-year-old student in the northeastern city of Changchun, who refused to be baptized, “BBC tells. “There are always a few days a year when it is unbearably hot.”

The hotels have become popular with students who want to avoid sweaty nights in their hostels, which usually house four to eight people in a room and have no air conditioning.

But for many, the move is as a last resort. “A hotel check is a huge expense for us students,” says the student in Changchun.

So in less desperate days he landed a bowl of ice cubes in front of a small fan to cool his dorm room – what he calls a “home air conditioner”. The invention directed him as the semester ended this week.

The Sanfu season, known as the Dog Days in China, usually begins in mid -July. But it arrived early this year, with temperatures in the Eastern region rising over 40C (104F) in the last week – and millions of residents have caught.

Concerns about high temperatures stopped after reports that the security of his hostel in his room at Kingdao University was killed on Sunday – what many consider to be a heat stroke.

His reason for death is “under investigation,” said a statement published by the University on Monday. It says he was found in his “abnormal state” room and was declared dead when the paramedics arrive at the scene.

The stands quickly poured on a man, known to students such as the Hostel “Uncle”, who took care of stray cats on the campus.

“The kittens do not know that Uncle has gone far away. After today, he met many people, but he never hears uncle’s voice again,” a Weibo user commented.

The incident also threw a projector on the living conditions of the school employees and students. Also on Sunday, a student at the same university was sent to the hospital after undergoing a heat stroke, Jimu News reported.

“The quality of the university does not hide in how many buildings there are, but rather how it treats regular people who quietly support the school’s operation,” another Weibo user wrote.

In recent weeks, China has been involved in extreme weather – a worldwide phenomenon that experts are related to climate change.

Chinese authorities have issued lightning -fast flood warnings on Wednesday after Typhoon made the land on the east coast of China. The storm, which killed two in Taiwan this week, moved to the Chinese provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian.

On the other side of the country, the floods dumped a bridge connecting Nepal and China. At least nine died and more than a dozen – both Nepalese and Chinese citizens – remain missing.

Meanwhile, the heat waves in China became hot and longer.

In 2022, the particularly exhausting heat caused more than 50,000 deaths, according to estimates by the Medical Journal the Lancet. The following year, there is a city in Syndzian, northwestern China, registering 52.5C – the highest recorded temperature in China.

2024 was the highest year in China, with July becoming the first month that the country is watching as it began to track the temperatures in 1961.

“It is felt that global warming has really affected our world,” says a student at the University of Changchun. “When I was young, the summer of the northeast was really comfortable. But now the summer is getting hot and hot.”

This year, high temperatures again tested the boundaries of residents.

Last week, a video showed a man in the province of Jedjiang, who breaks the train window to release air after the train derailed and passengers struck for hours in the suffocating heat.

In the neighboring province of Jiangxi, an air -conditioned restaurant has become a hot spot for the elderly, while far from their afternoon without ordering food – the grief of restaurant employees, local media reported.

In the northeastern province of Jilin, students were asleep in tents lining a corridor with air conditioning.

And after reports from students in the province of Shandong, who squat in supermarkets and check in nearby hotels to escape the heat, university arranges their students to sleep in the library, Hongxing News reported.

Several schools in the province of Shandong have announced plans to make their hostels with air conditioning – an increasingly impossible convenience.

The air conditioner represents more than one -third of the demand for the electricity network in eastern China, energy authorities in China said, as the demand for electricity reached a record high in early July.

Qingdao University officials told local media on Monday that it also has plans to install air conditioning in dormitories for students during the summer vacation.

This is what a student in Ginan City high school, 350 km away, had to hear.

The teenager, who has just completed his college entrance exams, tells the BBC that he has hesitant to go to Qingdao University – his best choice – because of his hostels.

“No air conditioning is too hot to survive,” he says.