Top: A boy cooks an egg and shrimp on a manhole cover in a road in Jinan, Shandong province, on Wednesday. Many cities around China are suffering sweltering heat, and experts say the situation will continue until mid-August. Below: Raw bacon is 80 percent cooked in about 80 minutes on a road in Shanghai on Tuesday. The thermometer shows the temperature was more than 60 C. Top: Zheng Tao / for China Daily; Below: Pei Xin / Xinhua