Safety checks on fireworks aim to ensure safer holiday

Authorities have launched safety checks on fireworks to guarantee a safe holiday as the Spring Festival approaches.

The State Administration for Market Regulation said at a news conference on Wednesday that random inspections had found that 23 of the 150 batches of fireworks checked were substandard. The biggest problems found were shorter ignition times and loose fuses, which can pose safety hazards, it said.

Random inspections at fireworks production factories were undertaken in the past few months in the provinces of Hunan, Jiangxi, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou and in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.