The Spring Festival is approaching, and the controversy over whether to fully release fireworks is in full swing. Recently, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has spread the rumor: the era of a complete ban on fireworks and firecrackers may come to an end. The news has stirred up waves across the country, and calls for whether the ban on fireworks should be lifted for the Spring Festival are also getting louder.
The controversy over the fireworks ban policy has focused on two aspects: environmental protection and safety. In order to reduce air pollution and fire risks, some areas have introduced regulations prohibiting the sale and burning of fireworks and firecrackers. However, the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has a different view, believing that these local regulations are in conflict with higher-level regulations, and that a comprehensive ban on sales and combustion is difficult to implement in practice. Therefore, they called on all localities to revise the relevant regulations to ensure their legality and feasibility.
On the front of environmental protection, China has written a glorious chapter in recent years, and the number of heavily polluted days in the country has dropped by an astonishing amount, as high as 93%. However, whether the brief display of fireworks during the Spring Festival will have a huge impact on the environmental achievements of the year has sparked heated discussions in society. Many netizens believe that after a year of hard work, the Chinese people should have the right to set off fireworks at the festive moment of the Spring Festival and enjoy that joy and peace.
As a traditional Spring Festival custom for thousands of years, fireworks and firecrackers carry rich cultural connotations and are an important part of Chinese culture. It is believed that this is also the practice of "cultural self-confidence" and the inheritance of traditional Chinese culture. Protecting the integrity of the Spring Festival requires us to preserve this custom.
In some regions, the 2023 Spring Festival, such as Henan, Guangdong, Shandong, Liaoning and other places, has changed the policy of "prohibiting" fireworks to "restricting". This local "restriction" management model pays more attention to the orderly management of fireworks at specific times and areas, avoiding the "one-size-fits-all" problem and solving environmental and safety concerns.
Before the Spring Festival in 2024, the voice of the National People's Working Committee may become an opportunity to promote the lifting of the ban. All localities should take this as a guide, listen to the public opinion, revise the relevant regulations as soon as possible, realize orderly fireworks, and protect the unique culture of the traditional Chinese New Year.
In the bright fireworks and firecrackers of the Spring Festival, we seem to see the shining light of the bright pearl of traditional Chinese culture. On the occasion of the festive season, we look forward to the convergence of wisdom from all parties, so that the sound of firecrackers will resound in the sky, and the flowers of the Spring Festival will bloom with more brilliant colors. Let us work together to inject new vitality into this long-standing traditional custom, so that Chinese culture will shine more dazzlingly in the new era, and convey endless joy and happiness to every family and warm every heart.