{"id":14249,"date":"2015-05-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/22\/li-s-participation-in-yoga-meet-to-help-its-spread-in-china\/"},"modified":"2015-05-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T12:00:00","slug":"li-s-participation-in-yoga-meet-to-help-its-spread-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2015\/05\/22\/li-s-participation-in-yoga-meet-to-help-its-spread-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Li&#8217;s Participation in Yoga Meet to Help Its Spread in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/article\/pti-stories\/li-s-participation-in-yoga-meet-to-help-its-spread-in-china-115051901055_1.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BEIJING, CHINA, May 19, 2015 (Business Standard): Participation of Premier Li Keqiang in the high profile yoga-tai chi event along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi here recently and the permission to set up the first India-assisted yoga college in China is seen as an official sanction for its spread in the communist nation. Li&#8217;s participation in the colorful yoga-tai chi meeting last week involving 400 Chinese and Indian students along with Modi provides &#8220;official seal&#8221; to permit practice of yoga in a big way, Indian officials said. <\/p>\n<p>Yoga has become immensely popular in China especially among the educated middle classes who see it as more of a physical exercise. However, this is the first time that a high powered official attended a yoga event sending an official signal to the provinces to encourage it. An MOU to set up a yoga college along with Indian teachers in Yunnan University was signed during Modi&#8217;s visit which for the first time bring will bring new standards to thousands of yoga teachers and institutions mushrooming all over China. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source BEIJING, CHINA, May 19, 2015 (Business Standard): Participation of Premier Li Keqiang in the high profile yoga-tai chi event,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}