Shock POWER CUTS hit north-east Chinese homes - could last till NEXT SPRING!

Shock POWER CUTS hit north-east Chinese homes - could last till NEXT SPRING!

China’s energy crisis has now hit homeowners in three northern provinces - Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang - as they were warned that unexpected outages would become “the new normal”.

Users on social media platform Weibo complained that heating, lifts and traffic lights were all down, while reports showed workers in Liaoning taken to hospital for carbon monoxide poisoning due to ventilators cutting out.

The principal cause is a severe shortage of coal, which fuels the majority of China’s power, as local governments have said they will source reserves from Inner Mongolia.