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100 Chinese cities lift 10-year firework ban
(Agencies)
Updated: 2005-02-13 08:44 Over 100 Chinese cities
have lifted a 10-year ban on fireworks for the Lunar New Year holidays, China's
most important holiday.
Fireworks light up
the sky over Victoria harbour in Hong Kong. More than 100 Chinese cities
have lifted a 10-year ban on fireworks for the Lunar New Year holidays,
China's most important holiday. [AFP] |
More
than 200 cities banned fireworks -- considered dangerous, noisy and polluting --
in 1995, ending the cacophony that traditionally erupted nationwide at midnight
on Lunar New Year's Eve.
But 106 have lifted the ban to bring more "atmosphere" to the holiday, the
state's Southern Daily said Friday.
Fireworks were widely used on New Year's Day on Wednesday and intermittently
during the week-long holiday in major cities like Nanjing, Jinan, Beijing,
Taiyuan and Lanzhou, the report said.
In Beijing nearly 300 people were injured and one killed in fireworks
accidents alone Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, state press reports said.
Setting off fireworks is a long-standing tradition in China during the Lunar
New Year holiday and based on the belief that the noise keeps evil spirits from
passing over into the new year.
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