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City trailing a blaze to limit use of fireworks
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DISNEYLAND and other amusement parks outside the city’s Outer Ring, are being asked to stop lighting fireworks when there is heavy air pollution, fire control authorities said yesterday.
It is one of the latest measures the city has introduced to ban or restrict fireworks to reduce both pollution and unsafe practices.
Shanghai’s latest regulation on fireworks, which came into effect in 2016, bans fireworks inside the Outer Ring, with the ban expanding to the whole city on heavily polluted days.
Ten air quality monitoring stations have been set up around the city by local environmental and meteorological departments and will release alerts and information on bans if the air is heavily polluted.
Though fireworks shows are key attractions at some amusement parks outside the Outer Ring, the ban should be enforced there, too, said an official with the fire control department. He said the practice had proved successful one night recently when Disneyland nixed its fireworks show after receiving notice that air pollution was heavy.
Restriction on fireworks will be stricter than last year as some districts have together named 83 roads, 42 areas and 1,371 sites outside the Outer Ring where fireworks are banned, details of which will be released soon.
A campaign was launched last month to crack down on the illegal sales, storage and lighting of fireworks. By last Wednesday, more than 10,000 boxes of fireworks had been confiscated, more than 1 million yuan (US$145,000) of fines issued, and more than 100 people had been detained.
Business licenses for selling fireworks and firecrackers will also be cut — to only nine stores in suburban districts from 84 last Spring Festival. The volume of fireworks and firecrackers will also be reduced from 50,000 to 3,000 boxes this year.
The government’s limits on fireworks is among steps aimed at curbing air pollution, which has been a top concern for local residents in recent years.
So much so that air purifiers are now common in households and education authorities are considering installing air purifiers in classrooms.
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