For better air, more people have said 'no' to fireworks this year

This year, China has welcomed its least smoky Spring Festival for years. As of New Year's Eve, sales of fireworks in Beijing were 34 percent lower than the previous year, and there was a similar trend in many other cities. Comments:

Together with the falling sales of fireworks, over 530 cities have issued new regulations that limit their use this year, which shows it is increasingly common for cities to want to smoke less over the festive period. This common sense would be impossible without the anti-graft storm, which curbed officials' luxurious lifestyles and discouraged them from taking every opportunity to show off their wealth, as government departments used to purchase large quantities of firecrackers as gifts for officials to celebrate the festival.

youth.cn, Feb 22