{"id":29536,"date":"2021-03-09T18:53:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/compulsory-romance-lessons-among-proposals-at-chinas-political-conference"},"modified":"2021-03-09T18:53:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T09:53:57","slug":"compulsory-romance-lessons-among-proposals-at-chinas-political-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=29536","title":{"rendered":"Compulsory romance lessons among proposals at China&#8217;s political conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Social policies including punishing people who abandon pets catch Chinese people\u2019s attention online<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRomance and marriage lessons\u201d in schools, using the social credit system to penalise people who abandon their pets, and ending compulsory English lessons are among the proposals made on the sidelines of China\u2019s most important political conference.<\/p>\n<p>The proposals were made by delegates at the Chinese people\u2019s political consultative conference (CPPCC), one of two major political meetings happening in Beijing this week under the banner of <em>lianghui,<\/em> or two sessions. While much of the focus is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/05\/china-unveils-hong-kong-electoral-reform-as-beijing-tightens-grip\">high-level geopolitical and national announcements<\/a>, the suggestions for social policies have caught Chinese people\u2019s attention online.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/09\/compulsory-romance-lessons-among-proposals-at-chinas-political-conference\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social policies including punishing people who abandon pets catch Chinese people\u2019s attention online\u201cRomance and marriage lessons\u201d in schools, using the social credit system to penalise people who abandon their pets, and ending compulsory English lesson&#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":[41,50,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-society","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\/29536","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=29536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29537,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29536\/revisions\/29537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}