{"id":336927,"date":"2026-03-13T08:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336927\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:50:08","slug":"chinas-new-law-signals-xi-wont-curb-environmental-ambitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/336927\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s New Law Signals Xi Won\u2019t Curb Environmental Ambitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">China\u2019s legislators approved a sweeping new environmental law that\u2019s seen as supporting President Xi Jinping\u2019s ambition to strengthen ecological and climate protections while also ensuring economic growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The Ecological and Environmental Code <a href=\"https:\/\/english.news.cn\/20260312\/6f3d3fa9cd69465a8f12a21dfe92d490\/c.html\" title=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">endorsed<\/a> Thursday at the closing session of the once-a-year National People\u2019s Congress consolidates a raft of previous legislation, including on air quality, low-carbon development and penalties for corporate polluters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"China\u2019s legislators approved a sweeping new environmental law that\u2019s seen as supporting President Xi Jinping\u2019s ambition to strengthen&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7765,30116,1657,1418,7737,9575,242,15746,85,4426,46,47347,8457,141,33328],"class_list":["post-336927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-air-pollution","tag-air-quality","tag-china","tag-clean-energy","tag-congress","tag-economic-growth","tag-environment","tag-green","tag-il","tag-infrastructure","tag-israel","tag-jinping-xi","tag-law","tag-science","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}