{"id":57189,"date":"2023-08-02T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T04:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/beijing-reports-heaviest-rain-140-years-china-g20-climate-talks"},"modified":"2023-08-03T00:56:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T15:56:12","slug":"beijing-reports-heaviest-rain-in-140-years-as-china-denies-sinking-g20-climate-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57189","title":{"rendered":"Chinese firefighter \u2018dies heroic death\u2019 as Beijing reports heaviest rain in 140 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather comes as China\u2019s foreign ministry denies reports that it obstructed discussions on climate crisis at G20 meetings<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s government awarded martyr status to a firefighter who died as he tried to rescue people trapped by heavy flooding that has pummelled Beijing and surrounding areas in the heaviest rain in at least 140 years.<\/p>\n<p>Feng Zhen, a firefighter in Beijing\u2019s Haidian district, was washed away by flood waters as he tried to rescue three people from a school building on Monday. The people escaped the area safely, but after receiving medical treatment Feng \u201cdied a heroic death\u201d, according to state media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/02\/beijing-reports-heaviest-rain-140-years-china-g20-climate-talks\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extreme weather comes as China\u2019s foreign ministry denies reports that it obstructed discussions on climate crisis at G20 meetingsChina\u2019s government awarded martyr status to a firefighter who died as he tried to rescue people trapped by heavy flooding t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,2331,65,455,42],"tags":[497],"class_list":["post-57189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-crisis","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","category-world-news","tag-g20"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57189","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57193,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57189\/revisions\/57193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}