{"id":39520,"date":"2021-12-06T13:28:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/china-modified-the-weather-to-create-clear-skies-for-political-celebration-study"},"modified":"2021-12-06T13:28:29","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T04:28:29","slug":"china-modified-the-weather-to-create-clear-skies-for-political-celebration-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39520","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018modified\u2019 the weather to create clear skies for political celebration \u2013 study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say Beijing used cloud-seeding to create artificial rain and lower pollution in July, in latest example of \u2018blueskying\u2019 efforts<\/p>\n<p>Chinese weather authorities successfully controlled the weather ahead of a major political celebration earlier this year, according to a Beijing university study.<\/p>\n<p>On 1 July the Chinese Communist party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/30\/making-china-great-again-pomp-and-propaganda-as-ccp-marks-centenary\">marked its centenary<\/a> with major celebrations including tens of thousands of people at a ceremony in Tiananmen Square, and a research paper from Tsinghua University has said an extensive cloud-seeding operation in the hours prior ensured clear skies and low air pollution.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/06\/china-modified-the-weather-to-create-clear-skies-for-political-celebration-study\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say Beijing used cloud-seeding to create artificial rain and lower pollution in July, in latest example of \u2018blueskying\u2019 effortsChinese weather authorities successfully controlled the weather ahead of a major political celebration earlier th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"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":[41,50,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39520","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\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39520"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39521,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39520\/revisions\/39521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}