Fireworks sales down in Beijing during holiday
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BEIJING, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) -- Sales of fireworks and the number of people injured due to fireworks setting off in Beijing have dropped significantly during this year's Spring Festival holiday, which began on Feb. 10.
A total of 313,000 cartons of fireworks had been sold from Feb. 9, the Lunar New Year's Eve, to Feb. 14 in the capital city, down 45 percent from the 564,000 cartons sold during the same period last year, according to the statistics from the Beijing municipal government on Friday.
A total of 165 people were injured due to fireworks setting off during the same period, down 22 percent from the previous year, it said.
No death or cases of eyeball extraction were reported, it said.
The drop of fireworks sales is attributed to people's rising awareness 1 of environment protection as the city had been shrouded 2 in smog for a long period of time last month.
Beijing mayor Wang Anshun visited a fire-fighting command center on Thursday and expressed his gratitude 3 to the cadres and citizens who did not set off fireworks or reduced the amount of fireworks during the holiday.
n.意识，觉悟，懂事，明智
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
v.隐瞒( shroud的过去式和过去分词 )；保密
- The hills were shrouded in mist . 这些小山被笼罩在薄雾之中。
- The towers were shrouded in mist. 城楼被蒙上薄雾。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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