{"id":45744,"date":"2022-06-24T18:56:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/24\/chinese-premier-calls-for-more-coal-production-as-electricity-demand-soars"},"modified":"2022-06-24T18:56:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T09:56:05","slug":"chinese-premier-calls-for-more-coal-production-as-electricity-demand-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45744","title":{"rendered":"Chinese premier calls for more coal production as electricity demand soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Records for electricity usage broken in Shandong, Henan and Jiangsu in early summer heatwaves<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s premier has called for increased production of coal to stave off mass blackouts, as early summer heatwaves have prompted record electricity usage.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday authorities again issued high temperature warnings for about a dozen provinces across the central and northern provinces, after consecutive days in the high 30s.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/24\/chinese-premier-calls-for-more-coal-production-as-electricity-demand-soars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Records for electricity usage broken in Shandong, Henan and Jiangsu in early summer heatwavesChina\u2019s premier has called for increased production of coal to stave off mass blackouts, as early summer heatwaves have prompted record electricity usage.On Fr&#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":[41,50,589,493,65,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coal","category-energy","category-environment","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\/45744","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=45744"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45770,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45744\/revisions\/45770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}