{"id":56446,"date":"2023-07-05T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/china-floods-xi-jinping-urges-action-as-rains-destroy-buildings-and-displace-thousands"},"modified":"2023-07-05T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T06:11:25","slug":"china-floods-xi-jinping-urges-action-as-rains-destroy-buildings-and-displace-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56446","title":{"rendered":"China floods: Xi Jinping urges action as rains destroy buildings and displace thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have warned the country to expect \u2018multiple natural disasters\u2019 this month including typhoons and high temperatures<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has called for stronger efforts to protect lives and property from severe flooding, as the country\u2019s scientists warned July will bring more misery from extreme weather.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy rain has displaced thousands of people in the centre of China, and destroyed bridges and other property. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2023\/jul\/04\/evacuations-underway-as-severe-flooding-hits-parts-of-china-video-report\">Video captured one building in southwest Chongqing crumbling into a raging torrent<\/a>, and the national broadcaster reported a railway bridge collapsed after it was weakened by flood waters in the same region.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/05\/china-floods-xi-jinping-urges-action-as-rains-destroy-buildings-and-displace-thousands\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have warned the country to expect \u2018multiple natural disasters\u2019 this month including typhoons and high temperaturesChina\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, has called for stronger efforts to protect lives and property from severe flooding, as the count&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3380,"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":[41,50,65,313,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-flooding","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\/56446","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\/3380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56454,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56446\/revisions\/56454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}