{"id":358288,"date":"2020-06-20T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T04:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=358288"},"modified":"2020-06-20T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T04:32:10","slug":"one-fifth-of-belt-and-road-projects-seriously-affected-by-covid-19-china-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/one-fifth-of-belt-and-road-projects-seriously-affected-by-covid-19-china-2\/","title":{"rendered":"One-fifth of Belt and Road projects &#8216;seriously affected&#8217; by Covid-19: China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 per cent of projects under China&#8217;s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to link Asia, Europe and beyond have been &#8220;seriously affected&#8221; by the coronavirus pandemic, an official from China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>According to a survey by the ministry, about 40 per cent of projects have seen little adverse impact, and another 30-40% have been somewhat affected, said Wang Xiaolong, director-general of the ministry&#8217;s International Economic Affairs Department, at a news briefing in Beijing. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;About 20 per cent percent of the projects have been seriously affected,&#8221; he said. Wang did not give any details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 per cent of projects under China&#8217;s ambitious Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to link Asia, Europe and beyond have been &#8220;seriously affected&#8221; by the coronavirus pandemic, an official from China&#8217;s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. According to a survey by the ministry, about 40 per cent of projects have seen little adverse impact, and another 30-40% have been somewhat affected, said Wang Xiaolong, director-general of the ministry&#8217;s International Economic Affairs Department, at a news briefing in Beijing. &#8220;About 20 per cent percent of the projects have been seriously affected,&#8221; he said. Wang did not give any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-roads-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}