It is one of the hottest days in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province's capital city. The temperature reaches 41 C at 2 pm. Jin Bingwu, an auxiliary traffic police officer in downtown Hangzhou has just finished his shift and walks into a nearby branch of the Agricultural Bank of China.

 

The security guard at the bank welcomes him and fills his empty bottle with water. In a rest area that the bank reserves especially for workers like him, Jin sits on the sofa, enjoys the cool breeze of the air conditioner and gulps down the water.

 

The bank is one of 197 companies in Hangzhou participating in the "Glass of Water" program, offering free drinking water to tens of thousands of workers who are continuing to work under the burning sun.

 

The program, organized and promoted by the Voice of Zhejiang, a radio station of the Zhejiang Radio and TV Group, started on July 9 to ask shops, supermarkets, shopping malls, banks, post offices and other businesses to participate.

 

Zhang Qin, chief director of the radio station, said the program aims to increase awareness for workers with jobs out in the heat. 

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