{"id":242434854,"date":"2012-09-06T23:00:54","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242434854"},"modified":"2012-09-06T23:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T23:00:54","slug":"a-chinese-city-moves-to-limit-new-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242434854","title":{"rendered":"A Chinese City Moves to Limit New Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By KEITH BRADSHER, New York Times<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe crackdown by China\u2019s third-largest city is the most restrictive in a series of moves by big Chinese cities that are putting quality-of-life issues ahead of short-term economic growth, something the central government has struggled to do on a national scale.<br \/>\nThe measures have the potential to help clean up China\u2019s notoriously dirty air and water, reduce long-term health care costs and improve the long-term quality of Chinese growth. But they are also imposing short-term costs, economists say, at a time when policy makers in Beijing and around the world are already concerned about a sharp economic slowdown in China.<br \/>\n\u201cOf course from the government\u2019s point of view, we give up some growth, but to achieve better health for all citizens, it is definitely worth it,\u201d said Chen Haotian, the vice director of Guangzhou\u2019s top planning agency.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s a recognition finally that growth at all costs is not sustainable,\u201d said Ben Simpfendorfer, the managing director of Silk Road Associates, a Hong Kong consulting firm.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nHe added, \u201cWhat do we need gross domestic product for if we don\u2019t have health?\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/05\/business\/global\/a-chinese-city-moves-to-limit-new-cars.html?_r=1&amp;smid=fb-share\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/09\/05\/business\/global\/a-chinese-city-moves-to-limit-new-cars.html?_r=1&amp;smid=fb-share<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By KEITH BRADSHER, New York Times &#8230; The crackdown by China\u2019s third-largest city is the most restrictive in a series of moves by big Chinese cities that are putting quality-of-life issues ahead of short-term economic growth, something the central government has struggled to do on a national scale. The measures have the potential to help &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=242434854\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Chinese City Moves to Limit New Cars&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242434854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242434854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242434854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242434854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242434854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242434854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242434854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}