A report shows China experienced more heavy rainfalls and high temperatures,     1    (warn) of increasing climate risks.Temperatures in China     2    (increase) faster than the global average over the past few     3    (decade), with extreme weather-related events becoming more frequent

Officials said the country was witnessing higher daytime temperatures — this July was     4    (hot) than previous years and the second-hottest since 1961 — while precipitation (降水量) nationwide in July increased by 3.2%     5    (compare) with previous years.

The report comes less than a month after     6    (dead) floods in Henan killed over 300 people and affected millions more. During the extreme weather event, the provincial capital of Zhengzhou     7    (record) a year’s worth of rainfall in a day.

This year’s floods have resulted in economic losses worth 123 billion yuan ($19 billion) in China.     8    , those losses are 22% lower than the average over    9     same period in the past five years, according to     10    (office) data.