{"id":307169,"date":"2018-12-18T05:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307169"},"modified":"2018-12-18T05:40:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T05:40:23","slug":"chinese-city-bans-christmas-sales-for-clean-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/chinese-city-bans-christmas-sales-for-clean-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese city bans Christmas sales for clean environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/chinese-city-bans-christmas-sales-for-clean-environment\/xmas\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307170\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307170 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xmas-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"507\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/xmas-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/xmas-520x420.jpg 520w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/xmas.jpg 605w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a>A North China city has banned\u00a0Christmas\u00a0sales and decorations. However, the city&#8217;s urban management bureau said the move is not targeted at Christmas but to maintain a clean city environment for an upcoming awards competition<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Urban Management Bureau of Langfang, North China&#8217;s Hebei Province issued a notice on Sunday that bans Christmas trees on streets, a news agency reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Stores are not allowed to put up banners, posters or light boxes about Christmas sales. Outdoor performances to celebrate the holiday or promote sales are also prohibited.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the news agency reports, city peddlers are forbidden from selling Christmas related items.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">As per the notice, all bureau employees are required to be on duty from December 23 to Christmas Day to inspect Christmas-theme promotions.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A North China city has banned\u00a0Christmas\u00a0sales and decorations. However, the city&#8217;s urban management bureau said the move is not targeted at Christmas but to maintain a clean city environment for an upcoming awards competition The Urban Management Bureau of Langfang, North China&#8217;s Hebei Province issued a notice on Sunday that bans Christmas trees on streets, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[666,10309,10312,10310,10311],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307172,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307169\/revisions\/307172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}