{"id":177706,"date":"2015-03-24T15:41:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T18:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=177706"},"modified":"2015-04-24T16:07:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-24T19:07:25","slug":"fresh-air-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/fresh-air-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh air in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_177707\" style=\"max-width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177707\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto3_229.jpg\" alt=\"Researcher Chen Jining: likely to head China\u2019s environmental protection ministry\" width=\"290\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto3_229.jpg 290w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto3_229-120x94.jpg 120w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/010-011_Estrategias-Foto3_229-250x197.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">QEPRIZE<\/span>Researcher Chen Jining: likely to head China\u2019s environmental protection ministry<span class=\"media-credits\">QEPRIZE<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The president of <em>Tsinghua University<\/em> in <em>Beijing<\/em>, Chen Jining, has been appointed to the top Communist Party post within China\u2019s Ministry of Environmental Protection. This move means he is likely to take over as minister in March 2015, when Zhou Shengxian, now at the helm, will retire. If his appointment is confirmed, Jining can apply his environmental research experience to one of China\u2019s biggest challenges, which is to drastically reduce its air, water, and soil pollution, aggravated in recent decades by the country\u2019s heavy industrialization. As a professor at the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering at Tsinghua, Jining focuses his research on environmental policy, river basin management, and sustainable cities. China has made questionable moves in the realm of the environment. It reorganized its environmental protection agency as a ministry in 2008 and has been enacting stricter pollution control standards. But industry often ignores these regulations. In the opinion of Ma Tianjie, program director for Mainland China at Greenpeace East Asia, Jining is a good choice for the ministry. \u201cThe Chinese public [is] eager to breathe freely,\u201d he says. According to Tianjie, Jining is a reasoned scientist and can be expected to get things done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University president appointed to Ministry of Environmental Protection","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[200],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-177706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strategies","tag-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177706"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=177706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}