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The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth.

BEIJING—Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ...

BEIJING - A provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting and building signs to save energy, official announcements said, as the area battles a power crunch triggered by record-high temperatures.

The disruption adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth.

CHONGQING, China--Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China’s driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

Chengdu, a provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertisements, subway lighting and building signs to save energy as the area battles a power crunch triggered by record-high temperatures.

Ships are creeping down the middle of the Yangtze after Chinas driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width.

Reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels.

CHONGQING, China (AP) — Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China's driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

A provincial capital in southwest China has dimmed outdoor advertising, subway lights and building signs to conserve energy, official announcements say, as