{"id":516035,"date":"2022-08-23T09:31:47","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=516035"},"modified":"2022-08-23T09:44:37","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T04:14:37","slug":"china-iconic-shanghai-skyline-goes-dark-as-drought-hits-power-supply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/china-iconic-shanghai-skyline-goes-dark-as-drought-hits-power-supply\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Iconic Shanghai skyline goes dark as drought hits power supply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic skyline of Shanghai &#8212; called The Bund &#8212; will not be lit for two nights to save power, officials said, as per media reports.<\/p>\n<p>The waterfront area &#8211; known for its mix of historical and futuristic buildings &#8211; is a popular tourist destination, BBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in China, major manufacturers in the Sichuan province said they had been hit by power cuts. <\/p>\n<p>Large parts of the world&#8217;s second largest economy face a severe drought amid a record-breaking heatwave.<\/p>\n<p>In a notice on Sunday, the Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau said buildings in The Bund, which are located along the city&#8217;s largest river, will not be lit on Monday and Tuesday, BBC reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iconic skyline of Shanghai &#8212; called The Bund &#8212; will not be lit for two nights to save power, officials said, as per media reports. The waterfront area &#8211; known for its mix of historical and futuristic buildings &#8211; is a popular tourist destination, BBC reported. Elsewhere in China, major manufacturers in the Sichuan province said they had been hit by power cuts. Large parts of the world&#8217;s second largest economy face a severe drought amid a record-breaking heatwave. In a notice on Sunday, the Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administrative Bureau said buildings in The Bund, which are [&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":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-516035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516035","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=516035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}