{"id":22572,"date":"2020-09-09T19:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/09\/anger-china-doctor-li-wenliang-died-covid-19-omitted-citizen-awards"},"modified":"2020-09-09T19:00:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T10:00:10","slug":"anger-in-china-as-doctor-who-died-of-covid-19-omitted-from-citizen-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22572","title":{"rendered":"Anger in China as doctor who died of Covid-19 omitted from citizen awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lavish ceremony fails to mention Li Wenliang, who spoke up about virus, prompting online outcry <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In a lavish ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping recognised a select group of citizens for their outsize contributions to the country\u2019s fight against Covid-19 and praised his party\u2019s resilience when faced with such \u201can extraordinary and historic test\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In front of hundreds of party officials, cadres and health workers, Xi carefully draped a heavy gold medal over the head of the senior epidemiologist Zhong Nanshan. He awarded medals to a traditional Chinese medicine expert, the head of a Wuhan hospital at the forefront of the outbreak, and a military biomedical expert. More than 40 medical workers, local officials and police who died during the outbreak were also commended.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/09\/anger-china-doctor-li-wenliang-died-covid-19-omitted-citizen-awards\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lavish ceremony fails to mention Li Wenliang, who spoke up about virus, prompting online outcry Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIn a lavish ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Tuesday, Chinese leader Xi Ji&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"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":[41,50,1069,914,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22585,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22572\/revisions\/22585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}