“It is the 11th straight year for the country to experience an abnormally high temperature against the global backdrop of climate change,” a meteorological spokeswoman, Jiao Meiyan, was quoted as saying in the China Daily.

From January to November the average temperature was 11.3 degrees Celsius (52.3 Fahrenheit), 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than an average year, she said.

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