Tourists buy boiled eggs, which are cooked by burying into the sand, during their visit to the Turpan basin in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on June 16, 2016. Local meteorological authority has issued a red alert for high temperatures; the highest level in China's four-color-coded warning system, as temperature in Turpan reached 45 degrees Celsius. This is the first red alert issued in the region since the start the year. [Photo/VCG] |