{"id":25946,"date":"2020-12-23T14:33:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/23\/china-to-bring-in-law-against-food-waste-with-fines-for-promoting-overeating"},"modified":"2020-12-23T14:33:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-23T05:33:55","slug":"china-to-bring-in-law-against-food-waste-with-fines-for-promoting-overeating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25946","title":{"rendered":"China to bring in law against food waste with fines for promoting overeating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Xi Jinping\u2019s \u2018operation empty plate\u2019, new law means restaurants will be able to charge patrons for leaving leftovers <\/p>\n<p>Xi Jinping\u2019s war on waste is set to be enshrined in law, with the submission of draft legislation to China\u2019s highest legal committee recommending large fines for businesses that enable or promote wasting food.<\/p>\n<p>In August the Chinese leader said the amount of food wasted nationally <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/aug\/13\/operation-empty-plate-xi-jinping-makes-food-waste-his-next-target\">was shocking and distressing<\/a>, declaring in a speech that: \u201cwaste is shameful and thriftiness is honourable\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/23\/china-to-bring-in-law-against-food-waste-with-fines-for-promoting-overeating\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by Xi Jinping\u2019s \u2018operation empty plate\u2019, new law means restaurants will be able to charge patrons for leaving leftovers Xi Jinping\u2019s war on waste is set to be enshrined in law, with the submission of draft legislation to China\u2019s highest legal &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,311,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-food","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\/25946","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25947,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25946\/revisions\/25947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}