When the temperature of the southern region of China reached more than 40 degrees Celsius, people went to restaurants to be renovated from the Bunnel of World War II.

Chongqing people and Sichuan Province, the localities are famous for spicy hotpot, are looking for special hotpot restaurants in decks hiding from wartime, due to significantly lower underground temperatures.

Local people often call this a cave hotpot restaurant.

We hide hot in the shelter, Vinh Cuong street said when eating hotpot at the restaurant in Chongqing on August 25.

The owner prepares food for diners in a cave hotpot restaurant in Chongqing, China.

Chongqing, a city directly under the Central Government in Southwest China, is the hottest city in the country with daytime temperatures up to more than 40 degrees C.

Air conditioner accounts for more than half of the demand for electricity, 30% higher than the same period last year, according to the city's electricity company.

Chongqing officials performed electricity cutting with factories and businesses to ensure electricity for residential areas.

Government offices in Sichuan are required to keep the air conditioner temperature not lower than 26 degrees C. To do this, some companies have used large ice blocks to cool offices.

Chinese meteorologists say climate change is the cause of this year's extreme weather, warning similar heat waves that may appear more often.

Danson Cheong's shoe soles, correspondent Straits Times, melted because of the sunny day in Chongqing.

China deployed two large UAVs to sow artificial rain in Sichuan, in an attempt to end the worst drought 6 decades.