A woman donning sun protective clothes rides a motorbike in Fuzhou, capital of Southeast China’s Fujian Province, yesterday. The city issued this year’s first red alert for high temperatures yesterday, with mercury reaching 40 degrees Celsius. Guangdong Province, which neighbors Fujian, also issued this year’s first red alert on the same day, with the maximum temperature in provincial capital Guangzhou topping 39 degrees Celsius. China has a four-color-coded warning system for severe weather, with red being the most serious, followed by orange, yellow and blue.China News Service |