Majority wants to ban fireworks, survey finds
Updated: 2014-01-29 20:54
By WANG HONGYI (chinadaily.com.cn)
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More than 80 percent of Shanghai residents support a year-round ban of fireworks to improve the city's air quality, a new survey found.
Setting off firecrackers is an important tradition for Chinese people celebrating Spring Festival. But 85.6 percent said they will not buy fireworks during the upcoming festival, according to a survey released by the public opinion center of the Shanghai Statistics Bureau on Jan 28.
About 87 percent of the 1,078 residents polled said they worry that air pollution will harm their health, saying they watch the media's air-quality reports.
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