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Public recruited to enforce firework ban
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MORE than 300,000 volunteers will give up their free time over the Spring Festival holiday to help police enforce the new fireworks ban, the city’s comprehensive management office said yesterday.
On Tuesday, about 30,000 members of the public helped by putting up posters and handing out leaflets at various railway stations, shopping malls, city squares and tourist attractions throughout the downtown area, the office said.
In Xuhui District, volunteers at South Railway Station even encouraged people to sign a pledge promising not to purchase or light fireworks inside the Outer Ring Road, it said, without saying how many signatures were collected.
In Changning District, which is home to several large foreign communities, the police helpers put up streamers that outlined the new rules in Chinese, English, Korean and Japanese.
Other members of the public have been specifically tasked with denouncing anyone they find lighting, transporting or storing fireworks during the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Police, meanwhile, have been broadcasting public information messages over the radio and have used electronic billboards to inform people of the new rules and regulations.
They will also conduct patrols in areas covered by the ban tomorrow and Sunday, and again on February 11 and 22 — the fourth and 15th nights of the new Chinese year — both of which are traditional days on which to set off fireworks.
The new restrictions, which ban the lighting of firecrackers and fireworks within the Outer Ring Road, and in all areas on heavily polluted days, were introduced on January 1.
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