{"id":48693,"date":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/the-urban-rural-divide-hampering-chinas-efforts-to-cut-smoking"},"modified":"2022-09-21T08:45:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T23:45:13","slug":"the-urban-rural-divide-hampering-chinas-efforts-to-cut-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=48693","title":{"rendered":"The urban-rural divide hampering China\u2019s efforts to cut smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health cover varies widely between rich cities and poorer regions, and government messages on healthy living do not always go down well<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/chinas-hidden-epidemics-the-preventable-diseases-that-could-reshape-a-nation\">China\u2019s \u2018hidden epidemics\u2019: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The tyranny of distance and the yawning social divide in China are seriously hampering attempts to control an \u201cepidemic\u201d of diseases such as lung cancer, despite billions being spent on healthcare, experts have warned.<\/p>\n<p>Health and social outcomes vary greatly between urban and rural areas, between rich and poor, causing such alarm in Beijing that President Xi Jinping has made raising \u201ccommon prosperity\u201d the watchword of his bid to rule for an unprecedented third term.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/21\/the-urban-rural-divide-hampering-chinas-efforts-to-cut-smoking\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health cover varies widely between rich cities and poorer regions, and government messages on healthy living do not always go down wellChina\u2019s \u2018hidden epidemics\u2019: the preventable diseases that could reshape a nation The tyranny of distance and the yawn&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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":[41,50,346,771],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-health","category-smoking"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48693","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48694,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48693\/revisions\/48694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}