China Director Zhao Vicky asking not to play fireworks during Lunar New Year in Beijing

Setting off fireworks to celebrate renewal and ward off evil spirits is a traditional part of the celebration that marks China's most important family holiday.


                    

Beijing appeals to reduce the smoky celebrations after air pollution rose to near catastrophic levels over recent weeks, 2014. China's capital saw almost twice the number of smoggy days as usual in January, with levels of small particle air pollution going off the charts at times. That prompted calls for restraint, along with a reduction in the number of licensed fireworks sellers and the amount of fireworks on sale.

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Beijing was largely helpless in the face of the January smog, while schools canceled outdoor activities, some factories closed and government cars were ordered off the streets. Scores of people, especially the young and elderly, were treated at hospitals for respiratory problems, elevated blood pressure and heart complaints.Last year's fireworks display created a thick haze that sent 2.5 microgram pollution levels as high as 1,500.

Chinese Director Zhao Vicki said: "Now the Lunar New Year Festival is coming, I begged everyone to buy or not to buy as little as fireworks, air conditions in China today is very bad. New Year fireworks will make it worse against a 1950s London, a very serious haze tragedy, which causing thousands of people died of air poisoning. Do you hope that China become so? Little things can eliminate Tyndall effect! “

In fact, the heavy regional haze in China's most important agricultural areas may be cutting food production there by as much as one-third. Covering a million square kilometers or more, the haze scatters and absorbs solar radiation, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching key rice and winter wheat crops. That decreases plant growth and food production.


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