{"id":1293,"date":"2016-01-04T16:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1293"},"modified":"2016-01-04T16:57:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T16:57:58","slug":"china-drinking-the-northwest-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1293","title":{"rendered":"China: Drinking the Northwest Wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/150187645\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" frameborder=\"0\" title=\"Drinking the Northwest Wind\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Like so many of <a href=\"http:\/\/politics.people.com.cn\/n\/2014\/1228\/c1001-26286675.html\">Mao\u2019s pronouncements<\/a>, it sounded simple. \u201cThe South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.\u201d And thus, in 1952, the spark was lit for what would blaze to life four decades later as China\u2019s most ambitious engineering project\u2014a scheme to bring some 45 billion cubic meters of water, mostly from the mighty Yangtze and its tributaries, up to the north China plain to Beijing and the parched farmland and factory towns around it. The central route of the project <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/dec\/12\/china-water-diversion-project-beijing-displaced-farmers\">began carrying water<\/a> from Hubei to Beijing in late 2014, and, like so many of Mao\u2019s plans, it has left a swath of human devastation in its wake. (Text by Susan Jakes, Multimedia by\u00a0Sharron Lovell, Tom Wang)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">See more on Chinafile:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/multimedia\/video\/drinking-northwest-wind\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">http:\/\/www.chinafile.com\/multimedia\/video\/drinking-northwest-wind<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sharron-lovell.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Sharron Lovell<\/strong><\/a> is a multimedia storyteller and educator. She is currently based between Rome and Beijing and possesses a misguided love of China\u2019s lower tier cities. She lectures on multimedia journalism for a Beijing-based, U.K.-accredited<a class=\"external-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.immj-ma.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Master\u2019s program<\/a>\u00a0and is co-hosts a podcast on\u00a0<a class=\"external-processed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.multimediaweek.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">multimedia journalism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">Lovell\u2019s work has been published in\u00a0<em>National Geographic<\/em>\u00a0books, PBS, Aeon,\u00a0<em>Foreign Policy<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Newsweek<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em>, Buzzfeed,\u00a0<em>Politiken<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Economist<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Irish Times<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Forbes<\/em>,\u00a0<em>The Independent<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Grazia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ms.<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Adbusters<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Le Monde<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>The Financial Times<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/tom.wang.7503314\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tom Wang<\/strong><\/a> hails from central China, where he studied multimedia journalism. He has always been a music and film lover and while studying in University discovered documentary film. His interests include urbanization, rural development, water resources, and other environmental issues. Wang currently lives in Beijing, where he works on documentary projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like so many of Mao\u2019s pronouncements, it sounded simple. \u201cThe South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.\u201d And thus, in 1952, the spark was lit for what would blaze to life four decades later &#8230; <a title=\"China: Drinking the Northwest Wind\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/?p=1293\" aria-label=\"Mehr Informationen \u00fcber China: Drinking the Northwest Wind\">Weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1295,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1293\/revisions\/1295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajournalist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}