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NAME: CHN HEAT 220605N TAPE: EF05/0550 IN_TIME: 10:35:59:05 DURATION: 00:01:34:01 SOURCES: APTN DATELINE: Beijing - 22 June 2005 RESTRICTIONS: SHOTLIST 1 Panda hall at Beijing Zoo, visitors looking at the panda though glass 2 Panda lying on ground 3 Wide shot visitors 4 Close up of panda covering its eyes with its paw 5 Monkeys hill 6 Various shots of monkeys playing water 7 Polar bears zone 8 Ice blocks on the ground, one bird jumping around ice blocks 9 One polar bear scratching its face by the pond 10 Bear scratching its face 11 Bear in pond 12 Black bear playing water in pond 13 Wide shot of Beijing Shichahai lake 14 One old man getting into the water, swimming 15 People swimming in the lake 16 Two people walking on street STORYLINE While the south is suffering a deluge, much of northern China is sweating through a heat wave, which has driven temperatures to nearly 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in the capital, Beijing Animals in Beijing Zoo had to find different ways to cool themselves down Pandas prefer to lie down quietly without doing anything and ignore the disappointment of the visitors In the zoo's monkey hill, the monkeys played with water under the scorching sun The zoo installed tap water pipes on the monkey hill area this year to specially cool them down on hot summer days The heat waves are extremely bad news for polar bears, who usually live in the frozen climates of the north pole One black bear found the pond to be the best place to avoid the heat Similarly, some Beijing citizens chose to swim in Shichahai lake to cool down Chinese Meteorological departments have issued high temperature warnings in accordance to the current weather forecast to Beijing locals The temperature is expected to drop slightly Thursday, according to Beijing Meteorological Station