China is facing a growing risk of experiencing extreme weather and climate events and a temperature rise higher than the global average as a result of continuing climate warming.
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A Blue Book on Climate Change in China 2021 published by China’s China Meteorological Administration (CMA) this week cautioned that between 1961 and 2020, extreme heavy precipitation sees a gradual rise, and since the mid-1990s extreme heat events have increased significantly in the country.
According to the Blue Book, China is a sensitive and significant area impacted by global climate change with a rise of temperature significantly higher than the global average during the same period.
The Blue Book points out that China’s climate risk index from 1961 to 2020 shows a tendency of increase, and in 2020 the number was 10.8, the third-highest value in that period.
The Blue book comes within weeks of devastating floods in the central Chinese province of Henan, which killed more than 300 people and affected millions more.