[1/5] People walk on a street amid an orange alert for heatwave in Beijing, China June 22, 2023.
China has a four-tier weather warning system, with red the most severe, followed by orange, yellow and blue.
A red alert indicates the temperature is set to rise above 40C within 24 hours.
The China Meteorological Administration said on Thursday it expected high temperatures to persist across much of the country's north for the next eight to ten days.
High temperature monitoring and warnings would continue on a rolling basis in places including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan and Inner Mongolia, it added.
Persons:
Tingshu Wang, Ryan Woo, Casey Hall, Sonali Paul
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Beijing, China, Tingshu Wang BEIJING, Tianjin, Hebei, Shandong, Henan, Inner Mongolia