{"id":38277,"date":"2021-10-23T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T05:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/23\/china-passes-law-to-reduce-twin-pressures-of-homework-and-tutoring-on-children"},"modified":"2021-10-23T21:51:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:51:51","slug":"china-passes-law-to-reduce-twin-pressures-of-homework-and-tutoring-on-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=38277","title":{"rendered":"China passes law to reduce \u2018twin pressures\u2019 of homework and tutoring on children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes local authorities and parents responsible for ensuring children are spared stress of overwork<\/p>\n<p>China has passed a law to reduce the \u201ctwin pressures\u201d of homework and off-site tutoring on children.<\/p>\n<p>The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday the new law, which has not been published in full, makes local governments responsible for ensuring that the twin pressures are reduced and asks parents to arrange their children\u2019s time to account for reasonable rest and exercise, thereby reducing pressure and avoiding internet overuse.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/oct\/23\/china-passes-law-to-reduce-twin-pressures-of-homework-and-tutoring-on-children\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law makes local authorities and parents responsible for ensuring children are spared stress of overworkChina has passed a law to reduce the \u201ctwin pressures\u201d of homework and off-site tutoring on children.The official Xinhua news agency said on Saturday &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277","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\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38285,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38277\/revisions\/38285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}