Yueyang Enjoys Good Spring Festival Air Quality Under Strict Firecracker Ban

2018-02-22
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Workers are inspecting the implementation of firecrackers ban in grass roots. 

The confiscated firecrackers are dragged away.

Workers are conducting on-site inspection on firecracker ban at Spring Festival eve. 

The firecrackers are to be destroyed.

The firecrackers are destroyed in a certain place. 


Yueyang has seen good air quality during the Spring Festival holiday under strict firecracker ban. No firecrackers and fireworks were setting off in downtown areas at 2018 Spring Festival eve.

The city's air quality index stood at 117 at zero hour of February 16th, 2018, according to the Yueyang Municipal Environmental Protection Department.

With the implementation of the firecracker ban, the city was presented with the biggest hongbao (lucky money) of this Spring Festival -- Yueyang Blue Sky.

Translator: Chen Yu
Chinese source: yueyang.gov.cn