{"id":73200,"date":"2025-07-31T19:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/chinese-official-rare-admission-failings-deadly-beijing-floods"},"modified":"2025-07-31T19:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T10:18:33","slug":"chinese-official-makes-rare-admission-of-failings-over-deadly-beijing-floods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73200","title":{"rendered":"Chinese official makes rare admission of failings over deadly Beijing floods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local Communist party secretary says there were \u2018gaps\u2019 in city\u2019s readiness for extreme weather after at least 40 killed<\/p>\n<p>A Beijing city official has issued a rare public acknowledgment of official failings in the authorities\u2019 response to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/29\/china-floods-flooding-beijing-thousands-evacuated\">severe flooding<\/a> that hit China\u2019s capital this week.<\/p>\n<p>Yu Weiguo, a Communist party secretary for Miyun, the northern district worst affected by this week\u2019s extreme weather, said in a press conference on Thursday that there were \u201cgaps\u201d in the city\u2019s readiness for the deadly floods.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/31\/chinese-official-rare-admission-failings-deadly-beijing-floods\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Communist party secretary says there were \u2018gaps\u2019 in city\u2019s readiness for extreme weather after at least 40 killedA Beijing city official has issued a rare public acknowledgment of official failings in the authorities\u2019 response to the severe flood&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4154,"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":[41,50,65,455,313,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-extreme-weather","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\/73200","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\/4154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73201,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73200\/revisions\/73201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}