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Nearly 50 million people in Guangxi Province, China are suffering the worst electricity shortage seen in two decades. Businesses have closed and the people swelter in the summer heat.

The Guangxi Power Grid Corporation held a press conference and said that, “the electricity shortage this year is much worse than predicted and it now accounts for 30 percent of the total demand,” China Economic Times reported on Aug. 2. The Corporation has issued an electricity shortage red alert.