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Noisy dancers silenced
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ON March 29, an eerie alarm sounded from loudspeakers in a residential building in downtown Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, silencing noisy dancers on a public square across the street.
According to a Xinhua report on April 2, the alarm was followed by an announcement via loudspeakers: “Please abide by the noise pollution law and stop your illegal activities!”
All of a sudden, the wild dancing and singing stopped. The tit-for-tat strategy worked where local government intervention failed. For the past two years, administrators had not been able to reduce the noise from merry makers who had made life miserable for nearby residents.
On April 1, Zhejiang provincial officials criticized cadres in Wenzhou for inaction.
Soon afterward, cadres decided that square dancing and singing could continue, but the volume would be turned down. Yet local cadres didn’t do it, or didn’t want to do it, for two years, and winked at escalating conflicts between different groups of residents.
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