{"id":60849,"date":"2024-01-01T03:43:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T18:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/31\/xi-jinping-says-chinese-business-having-tough-time-in-new-year-message"},"modified":"2024-01-01T15:18:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T06:18:54","slug":"xi-jinping-says-chinese-business-having-tough-time-in-new-year-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=60849","title":{"rendered":"Xi Jinping says Chinese business having \u2018tough time\u2019 in new year message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery of world\u2019s second-biggest economy held back by severe property slump and lacklustre global demand<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, acknowledged in his <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20231231\/4e0fc2697d994cd2b4dcb5dca525a611\/c.html\">new year\u2019s message<\/a> that \u201csome enterprises had a tough time\u201d in 2023 as data showed a weakening of factory production deepened this month, but he vowed to step up the pace of the economy\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on TV, Xi said: \u201cAlong the way, we are bound to encounter headwinds. Some enterprises had a tough time. Some people had difficulty finding jobs and meeting basic needs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/31\/xi-jinping-says-chinese-business-having-tough-time-in-new-year-message\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recovery of world\u2019s second-biggest economy held back by severe property slump and lacklustre global demandChina\u2019s president, Xi Jinping, acknowledged in his new year\u2019s message that \u201csome enterprises had a tough time\u201d in 2023 as data showed a weakening &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2314,"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":[6,50,2370,1175,42,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-china","category-evergrande","category-manufacturing-sector","category-world-news","category-xi-jinping"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849","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\/2314"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60858,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849\/revisions\/60858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}