Why is it a national regulation that there is no heating in the south?

There is no clear regulation. In the north, heating equipment and pipes are included in the price and have already been paid for when buying a house. In the south, there is no integrated pipeline, nor in the building. Renovation is too difficult and the cost is too high.

Every winter is the season when children in the north get sick and children in the south shiver. The main reason is that children in the north have heating, while children in the south can only cross the sea to show their magical powers.

The main reason for the difference in heating between the north and the south lies in the demarcation of heating between the Qinling Mountains and the Huaihe River formulated at the beginning of liberation. However, this line was established based on considerations of economic development levels rather than actual needs. The south without heating is colder than the north, and even many northerners cannot stand the winter in the south. Once ice and snow weather occurs, the temperature in the south will drop below zero and it will be even more painful. The citizens of Wuhan, Nanjing, and Hangzhou south of the Yangtze River probably have a deep understanding of this. During the ice and snow disaster in 2008, I experienced the biting cold that was more severe than before.

It is obviously outdated to continue to decide whether to heat according to the north-south dividing line drawn a hundred years ago. In fact, there have been calls for central heating in the south for many years. However, every time there is loud thunder and little rain, the relevant proposals have not yet been recognized by the decision-making level. The main basis of the opposition is the huge energy consumption, but this cannot be a reason to continue to make the children in the south tremble.

In the 1950s, my country installed centralized heating systems for urban residents. However, there was a shortage of energy at that time, so the Qinhuai Line, which divides the north and south of China, became the boundary of central heating. People in some areas of the south had to endure room temperatures below 10°C. Now, as China's economy grows, that dividing line is increasingly seen as anachronistic. This injustice is not easy to resolve, and the agreement announced this week by leaders of China and the United States to curb greenhouse gas emissions may have made the problem even more difficult.

Some cities have even experienced large-scale power outages due to a large number of citizens using electric heaters at the same time. Some scholars believe that outdoor temperature should be used as the decisive factor in determining whether local heating is provided. Two years ago, some members of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference submitted proposals to expand district heating southward and believed that the Chinese government already had this capability.