{"id":38078,"date":"2021-10-16T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/china-coal-and-cop26-can-the-worlds-biggest-emitter-give-up-its-dirty-habit"},"modified":"2021-10-16T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2021-10-16T14:00:07","slug":"china-coal-and-cop26-can-the-worlds-biggest-emitter-give-up-its-dirty-habit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38078","title":{"rendered":"China, coal and COP26: can the world\u2019s biggest emitter give up its dirty habit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those who helped fuel China\u2019s growth fear for livelihoods, while power shortages create transition dilemma for Xi Jinping<\/p>\n<p>When he was a little boy in the 1980s, Wang Xiaojun was taught to be proud of his home town of L\u00fcliang in the north-western Chinese province of Shanxi. Shanxi is China\u2019s biggest coal-producing region, and L\u00fcliang was a significant base for the Red Army during the second world war.<\/p>\n<p>Nestled in the mountains of the dusty Loess Plateau, L\u00fcliang, a city of 3.4m people, has had less to shout about in recent years. A series of corruption scandals in the city brought down several high profile officials shortly after President Xi Jinping came to power in 2013; there are concerns over the high number of babies born with congenital defects, blamed by experts on air pollution; and, last week, a huge flood forced coal mines to close just as China scrambles to tackle its energy crunch.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/16\/china-coal-and-cop26-can-the-worlds-biggest-emitter-give-up-its-dirty-habit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who helped fuel China\u2019s growth fear for livelihoods, while power shortages create transition dilemma for Xi JinpingWhen he was a little boy in the 1980s, Wang Xiaojun was taught to be proud of his home town of L\u00fcliang in the north-western Chinese&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,589,493,65,492,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","category-fossil-fuels","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\/38078","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38078\/revisions\/38090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}