{"id":9089,"date":"2019-09-18T09:27:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/18\/china-young-climate-heroes-fight-apathy-party-line"},"modified":"2019-09-18T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T00:27:14","slug":"chinas-young-climate-heroes-fight-apathy-and-the-party-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=9089","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s young climate heroes fight apathy &ndash; and the party line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Jiaxin and Howey Ou are trying to convince Beijing to take radical carbon-cutting action<\/p>\n<p>One is a student engineer who became obsessed after watching an incendiary film about air pollution. The other is a 16-year-old who went on China\u2019s first climate strike.<\/p>\n<p>Zhao Jiaxin and Howey Ou are part of a small but growing minority of young Chinese determined to press their country towards more radical carbon-cutting action. The pair are also China\u2019s sole winners of carbon neutral \u201cgreen tickets\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/sustainabledevelopment\/blog\/2019\/08\/100-young-climate-champions\/\">UN is providing<\/a> to 100 young people around the world.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/18\/china-young-climate-heroes-fight-apathy-party-line\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhao Jiaxin and Howey Ou are trying to convince Beijing to take radical carbon-cutting actionOne is a student engineer who became obsessed after watching an incendiary film about air pollution. The other is a 16-year-old who went on China\u2019s first clima&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"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":[41,50,326,65,767,564,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-climate-change","category-environment","category-environmental-activism","category-greenhouse-gas-emissions","category-protest","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\/9089","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\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9091,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9089\/revisions\/9091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}