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This July is Shanghai's hottest in nearly 80 years, a fact one reporter drove the point home after cooking a piece of pork on the ground.

Temperatures reached 39.1 C on July 29, marking the seventh day in a row temperature hit above 38 C in the metropolis. The heat also topped a record set in July of 1934, when temperatures boiled over 35 C for 23 straight days.

One Shanghai TV reporter marked the occasion by throwing a slice of pork on a marble slab near People's Square, where it cooked through after 10 minutes.

"After a second of sitting on the ground my bottom feels like it's burning," a local resident at the square told Shanghai TV.

This heat wave is also sizzling other parts of China as high temperatures plague large parts of South and East China.

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In similar news, Nanjing-based website longhoo.net reported that recently nearly 15,000 kilograms of fish were cooked through after spilling from an overturned truck onto scorching highway asphalt in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province.

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