CHINA is going to make it rain.

Its government has created a technology that can cause a downpour over an area almost twice the size of France.

2 A storm brewing in Shanghai, China Credit: Alamy

China is spending £138million on the new initiative to solve the drought in its northwestern provinces, according to the South China Morning Post.

It's sending airplanes to spray chemicals like dry ice and silver iodide across the sky to create more rainfall in a technique called cloud seeding.

The China Meteorological Administration expects rainfall and snow to be increased over 960,000 sq km as a result.

2 Britain is home to incredible cloud formations, with these Altocumulus clouds above St Mary's Lighthouse in Whitley Bay, on show as an Arctic cold spell blowing in from the north looks set to cause temperatures to tumble Credit: PA

How can you change the weather? China has a weather machine that it claims will make it rain over an area 1.7 times the size of France. It's spending millions on aircraft and chemicals that will be sprayed into the sky. Those chemicals - typically silver iodide or dry ice - will change the metaphysical make up of the cloud. This forces it to sleet, rain or even snow artificially, on demand.

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The project will take about four years to complete.

It's not a new technology.

Back in 2008, China launched over 1,100 rockets containing silver iodide before the Olympics opening ceremony so Beijing's skies would be clear for its fireworks display.

It comes as changing weather plays havoc with our planet.

Nasa revealed that 2016 was the hottest year ever and 2017 could bring floods, droughts, SUPERSTORMS and wildfires if temperatures rise.

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