Can Shanxi set off fireworks this year?

Shanxi may allow firecrackers in 2024.

According to the Notice of the General Office of Shanxi Provincial People's Government on Publishing the List of Administrative Licensing Items in Shanxi Province (2023 Edition) issued on October 9, 2023, a series of administrative licensing items related to fireworks and firecrackers have been added in Shanxi Province.

The newly added administrative licensing items include "design review of safety facilities for fireworks production and storage", "safety production license for fireworks production enterprises" and "business license for fireworks".

The provincial emergency departments are responsible for these licensing matters, and the emergency management departments at the provincial, municipal and county levels are responsible for their implementation. China people attach importance to the New Year, which will be full of excitement and prosperity. Accompanied by firecrackers, they bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and their beautiful expectations for the new year are as dazzling as fireworks. Nowadays, more and more people feel that the taste of Chinese New Year is getting weaker and weaker, and the loss of traditional culture makes Chinese New Year more and more meaningless.

Reasons why the state forbids setting off firecrackers:

1, environmental pollution

The main raw material of fireworks and firecrackers is gunpowder, which not only releases gorgeous fireworks, but also produces a lot of harmful gases and dust of various metal oxides, which stinks.

Therefore, a large number of fireworks and firecrackers will cause serious air pollution. Affected by the centralized discharge of fireworks and firecrackers, on the first day of the first month of each year, large-scale heavily polluted weather often occurs all over the country. In 2020, the concentration of PM2.5 in 30 cities and 19 cities will reach serious pollution.

2. Noise pollution

The deafening noise of fireworks and firecrackers will make it difficult for the elderly to fall asleep, the patients will be frightened, the students will not be able to study and rest quietly, which will bring great inconvenience to people's lives.

3, security risks

Setting off fireworks and firecrackers can easily lead to fires, especially in urban areas with increasingly high buildings and relatively dense population. Setting off fireworks and firecrackers at high altitude can easily lead to fire, directly endangering the safety of the public and people's lives and property, and there are great security risks.