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China has dismissed four local officials and launched legal action against a Canadian-owned outdoor brand after a fireworks show in Tibet’s high-altitude grasslands sparked outrage over environmental damage.
The 52-second display – created by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang and sponsored by the outdoor clothing company Arc’teryx – lit up the Himalayan slopes near Gyantse in Tibet’s Shigatse city on 19 September.
Videos of the show, shared widely on Chinese social media, showed a column of multicoloured smoke forming the shape of a “rising dragon” against the snow-capped peaks.
Officials in Tibet said the fireworks affected about 30 hectares of grassland, leaving behind plastic debris and firework remnants that were “not thoroughly c...
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