Chinese New Year's Eve was supposed to be a festive time to say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, but there were uncivilized voices on the Internet that "on the night of Huizhou New Year's Eve, the beach left a place of fireworks garbage". According to the video provided by netizens, after New Year's Day on January 1, 2024, on the seaside beach of Shuangyue Bay in Pinghai Town, Huidong County, packaging garbage from fireworks was piled up everywhere, and the scene was in a mess.
After the news was disseminated and fermented, it received widespread attention from netizens. Where does this fireworks waste come from, and is it an autonomous act of tourists or an activity organized by the government to set off fireworks on the beach on Chinese New Year's Eve? Are there any local regulations on the discharge of fireworks? What is the current situation of fireworks garbage disposal? On January 3, the government of Pinghai Town, Huidong County, responded to these questions.
A total of 45 tons of fireworks waste were cleaned up after Chinese New Year's Eve
"After verification, the location of the video incident was on the beach of Pinghai Vanke Shuangyue Bay, and the fireworks were not a public event organized by the government. According to the relevant person in charge of the Pinghai Town Government, on the eve of the New Year's Day holiday in 2024, the booking rate of local hotels in Pinghai will rise sharply, and many tourists from Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Dongguan and other places and people in Huidong District will come to Vanke Shuangyue Bay for New Year's Eve by car.
According to reports, in view of the possible peak of travel traffic on New Year's Day, Pinghai Town deployed the "Joint Law Enforcement Special Action to Ban and Restrict Fireworks during the New Year's Day" in advance before the holiday, clarifying the functions and responsibilities of the village (community resident) committee, Pinghai Town's emergency, police station, fire and other departments, and making every effort to do a good job in the safety management and persuasion of fireworks and firecrackers.
On the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, as the number of tourists gradually increased, Pinghai Town immediately joined forces with about 80 people including Pinghai Police Station and Vanke Property to persuade the people to set off fireworks. However, due to the enthusiasm of tourists to set off fireworks to celebrate the New Year, a large amount of fireworks garbage was left on the beach.
According to the relevant person in charge of Pinghai Town, after a large amount of fireworks garbage was generated, the town planned the next day's cleaning work in the early morning of January 1, and quickly organized a team of more than 70 cleaners to dispatch forklifts, garbage transfer vehicles, excavators, etc. After 8 consecutive hours of cleaning, the beach area was basically restored to cleanliness, and a total of 45 tons of residual garbage from fireworks were cleaned up.
Huidong is comprehensively carrying out the comprehensive renovation of the coastal area
In fact, problems such as garbage and noise pollution caused by fireworks and firecrackers have always been difficult to manage in Huidong Binhai Sea.
On January 7, 2023, in view of the time and area of fireworks and firecrackers in the Binhai Sea, the Office of the People's Government of Huidong County issued the "Work Plan for the Demarcation of Fireworks Prohibition and Restriction Areas in Pinghai Town and Port Resort", which clearly stipulates that fireworks and firecrackers are prohibited from 22 o'clock to 8 o'clock the next day, and divides the fireworks and prohibited areas in detail.
According to the relevant person in charge of Pinghai Town, in the past two years, the town has strictly implemented the requirements of the fireworks ban and restriction program, set up advertising billboards, and organized beach persuasion personnel to do a good job in the control and publicity of the fireworks area and the prohibited area to the masses and tourists. At present, most of the people and tourists can carry out all kinds of spontaneous celebratory fireworks and firecrackers activities in accordance with the specified time and area, but there are still some people and tourists who do not listen to the dissuasion and set off fireworks without permission.
In view of the environmental pollution incidents that may still occur in similar scenic spots in the future, the relevant person in charge of Pinghai Town said that the emergency plan for major festival activities will be further refined, and effective measures will be taken to increase the normalization of the fireworks area, the ban area and the ban time, so that the majority of tourists know and strictly abide by the regulations and requirements of fireworks;
At present, the county level of Huidong is also focusing on strengthening the management of the coastal area. A few days ago, Huidong County's Nipping Peninsula safety construction comprehensive renovation work was officially launched, planning to solve the outstanding problems in the industry field of the Nipping Peninsula through a series of comprehensive rectification actions, sort out the phenomenon of unclear rights and responsibilities, overlapping functions, and prevarication, rectify the stubborn diseases that the masses have a strong reaction to, and build a long-term social governance mechanism, so that the coastal tourist attractions are more livable and travelable, and the masses live happily and healthily.
Southern + reporter Wu Tianyu
【Author】 Wu Tianyu
[Source] Southern Press Media Group Southern + client