Chinese university’s ice deliveries help sleepless students chill out in sweltering dormitories

A university in one Chinese region where temperatures are constantly above 35 degrees Celsius is buying and delivering tonnes of ice every day to students living in dormitories without air conditioning, mainland media reports.

Reports about the efforts of officials at Guangxi University of Science and Technology, in the city of Liuzhou, in Guangxi, have gone viral on mainland social media.

The university said that up to Saturday it had spent more than 5,000 yuan (HK$5,800) on buying 28 tonnes of ice for students, The Beijing News reported.

The ice blocks are delivered by truck to the campus at 7.30pm every day. When the truck’s rear door opens, hundreds of students carrying buckets in their hands rush forward as workers use saws to cut up the ice into pieces.

“The situation is quite chaotic,” one student was quoted by the newspaper as saying.