{"id":6983,"date":"2013-05-22T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xiaokang2020.com\/danweicom\/?p=644"},"modified":"2021-09-10T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T02:56:18","slug":"small-hubei-community-has-been-free-from-fireworks-for-eight-years-and-loving-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/front-page-of-the-day\/small-hubei-community-has-been-free-from-fireworks-for-eight-years-and-loving-it.php","title":{"rendered":"Small Hubei community has been free from fireworks for eight years (and loving it)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Jingzhou<\/a><\/p>\n

For eight years already now, a small workers\u2019 residential community in Jingzhou, Hubei province has \u201cquietly\u201d been living a revolution. In 2005, errant fireworks caused a fire on a balcony in this community, and drawing the (painfully obvious yet in China excruciatingly absent) conclusion that fireworks on the whole just isn\u2019t worth it, decided to ban the stuff altogether. As the\u00a0front page<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Jingzhou Evening News<\/em>\u00a0reports today, for the last eight years Beiling has been living in a near nirvana-like state of calm and serenity. So can we all Learn from Beiling?<\/p>\n

<\/span>For eight now already, the small community of Beiling (\u5317\u83f1\u793e\u533a) in the district of Shashi (\u6c99\u5e02\u533a) in Jingzhou (\u8346\u5dde), Hubei province, has been fireworks-free, and the residents have not at all missed the noisy traditional accoutrements of every Spring Festival, wedding or funeral in China. In the estimation of its residents, Beiling has never been cleaner or more peaceful.<\/p>\n

A reporter from\u00a0Jingzhou Evening News<\/em>\u00a0(\u8346\u5dde\u665a\u62a5) yesterday ventured into the community of around 700 workers to get the lay of the land of this fireworks-free zone, and found the air nice and clean. At the main entrance of the community the reporter interviewed a few of the older residents who sat playing chess, and these informed him that eight years ago during the Spring Festival holiday, someone in Beiling was careless when shooting some fireworks and caused a fire on an apartment balcony. Fortunately no-one was injured, but at the time some of the residents were dismayed by the incessant cacophony from the crack of dawn to the middle of the night, and the \u201cred carpet\u201d of debris that would be left strewn everywhere every day.<\/p>\n

So the community decided to henceforth ban all fireworks. And what was the result? A more peaceful environment, cleaner streets, less noise and ruckus, a greater sense of calm and security, and cleaner air. And not only this, as the residents informed the reporter, now during Spring Festival holidays people can leave their windows open and can freely engage with each other in all kinds of hearty activities without being disturbed. All the residents were in agreement that their community is so much better now.<\/p>\n

The head of Beiling\u2019s neighborhood committee put it succinctly: fireworks waste resources, pollute the environment, disturb everyone\u2019s peace and are potentially dangerous \u2013 so why on earth would you have them?<\/p>\n

So in the spirit of\u00a0Learn from Daqing<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Learn from Dazhai<\/a>, it\u2019s now time for China to Learn from Beiling.<\/p>\n

Links and sources<\/strong>
\nJingzhou Evening News<\/em>\u00a0(\u8346\u5dde\u665a\u62a5):\u00a0\u5317\u83f1\u793e\u533a8\u5e74\u4e0d\u95fb\u97ad\u70ae\u58f0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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