According to a top Chinese meteorologist, climate change is now threatening some of the nation's most important infrastructure projects, also adding that China is experiencing faster warming rates than the average global rate.

The head of China's Meteorological Administration, Zheng Guoguang told a local newspaper that this sudden spike in extreme weather changes that leads to disasters such as floods, typhoons and even droughts and extreme heat, strongly links to climte change.

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He adds that these natural catstrophes can be a huge threat to bigger infrastucture schemes like the Three Gorges Dam which is a high altitude railway system leading to Tibet. Zheng says that this gloabl warming phenomenon poses serious risks to government projects most especially large engineering ones that are faced by workers today.

In the paper published by the Central Party School, he also notes that global warming can further affect the safety and stability of these big projects including their operational and economical effectivity along with technological progress and engineering techniques and standards.

China is now experiencing warming across the nation where an obvious higher rate than the global average is occurring in the northern regions. For example, warming happens at a more rapid rate than the southern regions and winters are faster than the summer season says Zheng.

He also notes that this first decade of this century is apparently the hottest in the last 100 years.

In order to focus more on an effective and sustainable growth path, China has to deal with climate change first, advises Zheng. He adds that climate change can act as a "lever" that can push the nation's economic transformation.

To date, 60 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in China is composed of coal that are now causing severe health problems among locals due to the thick smog it generates.

China is also the biggest source of greenhouse gases on the planet, which is the main precursor of climate change however, the nation has vowed to shift to cleaner fuels such as hydrocarbons and natural gas to later convert into renewable energy.

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