Strong winds and hailstorms triggered by severe convective weather battered Wuning County, Jiujiang City, in east China's Jiangxi Province on Sunday afternoon, causing varying degrees of damage to rice crops, trees, houses, and power facilities.
At around 15:30 on Sunday, Henglu Township in Wuning suffered from a rare autumn hailstorm after the heavy rain.
Hailstones, with the size of broad beans, fell densely and lasted approximately 20 minutes.
As a result, numerous trees along the roads were knocked down, crops in the fields were flattened, and some houses and power facilities sustained damages. Fortunately, no casualties were reported.
After the storms, local town and village officials immediately went to the scene to assess the situation and organize production self-rescue.
Local power supply and transportation had been restored by Sunday night.
Strong winds, hailstorms batter Jiujiang in China's Jiangxi Province, no casualties reported
China conducted its first large-scale cross-grid green electricity transaction of the year through market-oriented trading, according to the Guangzhou Power Exchange Center on Friday.
Via the power exchange centers in Guangzhou and Beijing, green power from south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and southwest China's Yunnan will be continuously supplied to Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian in east China from March 6 until March 31.
The transaction volume will reach 314 million kilowatt-hours, 100 percent of which is green electricity, with wind power accounting for 90 percent and photovoltaic power accounting for 10 percent.
"More than 100 wind and solar power stations in Guangxi and Yunnan have participated in this transaction, further enhancing the efficiency of optimizing power resource allocation nationwide and fully supporting the green energy needs of enterprises in east China for resuming work and production after the Spring Festival holiday," said Chen Yufang, deputy director of the trading organization department at the Guangzhou Power Exchange Center.
The transaction is estimated to involve a total electricity volume equivalent to saving 100,000 tons of standard coal and cutting carbon dioxide emissions by 260,000 tons.
China conducts first large-scale cross-grid green electricity trading in 2026
