{"id":14931,"date":"2020-02-24T19:36:45","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-china-wuhan-lockdown-economy-south-korea-npc-annual-parliament"},"modified":"2020-02-24T19:36:45","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T10:36:45","slug":"coronavirus-china-postpones-national-peoples-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14931","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus: China postpones National People&#8217;s Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New date for annual meeting in Beijing will be announced later, as cases outside China jump<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-live-updates-china-wuhan-hubei-latest-news-italy-lombardy-south-korea-iran-japan-cases-infections-death-toll-outbreak-xi-jinping-update\">Coronavirus &#8211; live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>China has delayed its annual parliamentary meeting as authorities struggle to contain the coronavirus outbreak, which has spread to more countries and prompted fears of a global pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Beijing postponed the key political event, the National People\u2019s Congress (NPC), which sees hundreds of delegates gather in Beijing every March.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2020\/feb\/24\/coronavirus-china-wuhan-lockdown-economy-south-korea-npc-annual-parliament\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New date for annual meeting in Beijing will be announced later, as cases outside China jumpCoronavirus &#8211; live updatesChina has delayed its annual parliamentary meeting as authorities struggle to contain the coronavirus outbreak, which has spread to mor&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,914,299,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14931\/revisions\/14932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}