The Bund, an iconic skyline in the Chinese city of Shanghai, will not be lit for two nights to conserve energy, according to officials.
The waterfront region is a famous tourist destination because it combines old and modern buildings.
They had experienced power outages.
Large portions of the world’s second-largest economy are experiencing a catastrophic drought as a result of an unprecedented heatwave.
The Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau said on Sunday that buildings along the city’s greatest river, the Bund, will not be lighted on Monday and Tuesday.
The notice stated, “We apologize for any trouble this may create.”
China issued its first national drought notice of the year last week, after Shanghai in the Yangtze Delta region and Sichuan in southwest China endured weeks of high heat.
On the official scale, the ‘yellow alert’ is the third most severe category.
Officials in the province of Sichuan, where temperatures have exceeded 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), stated in a recent statement that the power shortages were caused by high temperatures, poor rainfall, and increased demand for air conditioning.
According to media sources, the province has extended its power conservation measures by five days till Thursday. These restrict the electricity supply to some industrial enterprises.
Volkswagen informed that its factory in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan, remains closed.
Volkswagen expects a “slight delay” in delivery, which it hopes to overcome “shortly,” according to a spokeswoman.
“We are closely monitoring the issue and communicating with our vendors,” the representative stated.
Apple supplier Foxconn, which also closed its plant in Sichuan, stated that the present impact on output is “not significant.”
Toyota, a Japanese automaker, informed that it was gradually resuming production in Sichuan “using its power generation.”
Chenyu Wu, associate analyst for China and North Asia at consultancy Control Risks, told that the effects of power outages are likely to be short-lived.
“Local efforts to conserve energy and increase generation are likely to assist alleviate the power shortfall in the coming weeks, particularly if the much-anticipated end of the scorching heat wave arrives,” he said.
Authorities have taken measures to generate rainfall in portions of central and southwest China in response to the country’s longest heatwave on record.
According to local media, provinces surrounding the Yangtze River, Asia’s longest river, have resorted to cloud seeding operations to battle the lack of rainfall, while Hubei and several other provinces have fired rockets carrying chemicals into the sky.
However, a lack of cloud cover has impeded similar efforts in some regions.
