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No fireworks allowed inside Outer Ring Road next year or on any heavy-pollution days as city passes new law
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NO fireworks and firecrackers playing would be allowed anywhere inside the city's Outer Ring Road throughout next year, which would start on Friday, according to a new regulation aiming to curb air pollution, which was just passed by the Shanghai People’s Congress today.
The ban would mean that locals are not allowed to have their traditional festival fun anywhere in downtown areas during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday in February.
And lighting firecrackers, a must-have tradition for wedding celebrations in China, is also strictly banned inside the Outer Ring Road.
Locals would be ready for fines up to 500 yuan (US$77.5) for each violation and may also face criminal charges depending on the results of the violations, according to the regulation.
The new regulation has expanded the banned area from previously inside the Inner Ring Road, a practice followed since 1995, to all of the downtown areas.
The new regulation also says fireworks and firecrackers will also be banned across the city on days of severe air pollution.
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