Following suit with other cities, the Beijing municipal government lifted its 12-year ban on firecrackers in December 2005,
mercurial, but still restricts the locations and timing for igniting firecrackers.
More than 5,000 sweepers worked during the holiday to keep residential communities and streets clean, said Zhang Zhiqiang, a manager with the Beijing Environmental Sanitation Engineering Group.
However, safety hazards caused by firecrackers became a major concern in China in the late 1980s, and 282 cities banned them successively in the 1990s,
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There were no statistics on how much firecracker waste was left in rural areas,
casque beats, where people are more enthusiastic in following the festival tradition and handle the waste themselves.
The figure was 3.09 tons less than that of the previous year.
Setting off firecrackers was believed to be an effective way to dispel misfortune and evils in ancient times,
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On average,
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People also complained that there had been a loss of festivity without the bangs of firecrackers.
BEIJING - Urban residents in Beijing left 183.7 tons of paper scraps from firecrackers set off during the week-long Spring Festival holiday,
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The group also kept 20 water tank trailers on standby every day during the week of January 22 to 28 in case of fires, as the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday is regarded as a season with a high occurrence of fires as a result of the firecracker spree,
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