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CHONGQING/SHANGHAI—Residents living near a tributary of the Yangtze river in the southwestern region of Chongqing clambered along the ...

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.

As a persistent heat wave continues to affect major hydropower production and electronics manufacturing bases in Southwest China, Chinese officials and power companies have mounted a full-fledged, nationally coordinated effort to ensure power supply as well as stabilize economic activities that are already under pressure from COVID-19 outbreaks.

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.

The disturbance adds to challenges for the ruling Communist Party, which is trying to shore up sagging economic growth before a meeting when President Xi Jinping is expected to try to award himself a third five-year term as leader.

Reservoirs that supply hydropower fell to half their normal levels.

China warned that severe drought conditions along the Yangtze river could last well into September as local governments race to maintain power and find fresh water supplies to irrigate crops ahead of