{"id":10849,"date":"2021-01-20T14:25:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118561\/wuhan-mayor-step-down-year-after-he-came-under-fire-over"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:25:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:25:44","slug":"wuhan-mayor-to-step-down-a-year-after-he-came-under-fire-over-coronavirus-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/wuhan-mayor-to-step-down-a-year-after-he-came-under-fire-over-coronavirus-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuhan mayor to step down, a year after he came under fire over coronavirus response"},"content":{"rendered":"The mayor of Wuhan in central China is stepping down, nearly a year after the city became the first place in the world to be locked down to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.There was no official statement on the departure of Zhou Xianwang as mayor and his successor will need to be endorsed by the city\u2019s legislature before the change can be announced.But on Wednesday Zhou was identified as a senior member of the Hubei People\u2019s Political Consultative Conference \u2013 not as Wuhan mayor \u2013 in\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3118561\/wuhan-mayor-step-down-year-after-he-came-under-fire-over\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mayor of Wuhan in central China is stepping down, nearly a year after the city became the first place in the world to be locked down to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.There was no official statement on the departure of Zhou Xianwang as m&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10850,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10849\/revisions\/10850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}