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Square dancing to be regulated
    2019-06-28  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

Wang Jingli

wangjingli0715@163.com

GROUP dancing in public squares, which is favored by elderly women in China and known for generating widespread public complaints over loud music, will be regulated by authorities in Guangdong Province.

The Guangdong Provincial Regulation on Fitness, which will go into effect July 1, mandates that when working out in open public places, residents should observe traffic and noise control regulations, and are prohibited from infringing upon others’ legitimate rights and negatively affecting people’s normal life and work and rest hours.

Violators will be fined by the police and might face a criminal responsibility in serious cases.

Although square dancing as a positive form of exercise has become indispensable for many elderly Chinese, it has made headlines and sparked heated public debates.

The Shenzhen Daily found that almost every month anonymous residents in Shenzhen submit complaints over noisy music resulting from square dancing through an online platform on people.com.cn.

These anonymous residents are normally young people or parents who want a quiet environment to rest or for their kids to study in.

At times when there are more than one dancing group at one venue, the groups compete for the venue, turning up the volume of their songs to ensure their members can hear the music.

A similar story was recently reported at a residential compound in Baishizhou where 10 dancing groups occupy a narrow strip in the area, according to a Shekou news outlet.

Through coordination, representatives of each group finally agreed to sign a self-discipline agreement which stipulates the loudest music volume and required that the dancing finish before 9 p.m.

Bao’an District issued the first district-level rule on square dancing in 2014, which sets specific times and music volume acceptable for the activity.

Shenzhen once considered regulating square dancing issue through the city’s park service regulation. But a staff member from the public park management center said that the management of square dancing involves several law enforcement departments while public parks have no enforcement rights. Moreover, the music volume was hard to define. So they finally dropped the case.

Beijing has regulated square dancing through its regulation on fitness put into use in March 2017, which says square dancers may face administrative punishment if their dancing disturbs neighbors.

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