How does China keep 1.4 billion people cool during extreme heat?

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  Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.

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  This is The Point.

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  How does China keep 1.4 billion people cool?

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  This summer, the heat is testing cities worldwide, well, in the Northern Hemisphere.

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  In China, the challenge reached a new scale on July the 10th

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  when the peak electricity load hit an all-time high of 1.5 billion kilowatts.

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  That's higher than...

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  Those of the United States, Japan and Russia combined, according to statistics from the national grid.

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  Yet behind the big numbers lies a bigger story.

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  How does a country with such a massive population ensure energy security as millions of households

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  and businesses turn on their cooling systems?

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  How do cities adapt and innovate to make extreme heat more manageable for residents and tourists?

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  Across the northern hemisphere, what can China's experience offer to other regions, if any?

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  Welcome to this special edition of The Point with me, Lushin, an opinion show coming to you from Beijing.

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  I'm pleased to be joined from Xiamen, Southern China, by Professor Ling Bo Chiang,

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  Dean of the China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy at Xiamen University.

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  Here in Beijing, Professor Zhang Haoran, Vice Dean of the School of Urban Planning and Design at Peking University.

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  I'm from Shanghai by David Fishman, Principal...

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  At the lantau group and asia pacific energy economics

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  and analytics consultancy and advisory firm the warmest welcome to all of you gentlemen

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