{"id":37477,"date":"2021-09-29T22:52:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/china-hit-by-power-cuts-and-factory-closures-as-energy-crisis-bites"},"modified":"2021-09-29T22:52:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:52:56","slug":"china-hit-by-power-cuts-and-factory-closures-as-energy-crisis-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=37477","title":{"rendered":"China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s top coal consumer implements power rationing as supplies dwindle ahead of winter <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/china\">China<\/a> has told railway companies and local authorities to expedite vital coal supplies to utilities as the world\u2019s second largest economy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/28\/power-shortages-in-china-hits-homes-and-factories-prompting-global-supply-fears\">grapples with extensive power cuts<\/a> that have crippled industrial output in key regions.<\/p>\n<p>As many as 20 provinces are believed to be experiencing the crisis to some degree, with factories temporarily shuttered or working on short hours. Shopkeepers were left to light their stores by candles, and there were reports of mobile networks failing after a three-day outage hit three north-eastern provinces.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/29\/china-hit-by-power-cuts-and-factory-closures-as-energy-crisis-bites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s top coal consumer implements power rationing as supplies dwindle ahead of winter China has told railway companies and local authorities to expedite vital coal supplies to utilities as the world\u2019s second largest economy grapples with extensi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1450,"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":[41,50,589,657,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy-industry","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477","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\/1450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37478,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37477\/revisions\/37478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}