From Chinadaily:
Shanghai, the top metropolis in China and a key draw for tourists with its brilliant night skyline, said on Thursday that it would turn off all decorative street lamps during the seven-day Spring Festival to ease the burden on the electricity grid.
This was the first time for such a move, the Shanghai City Appearance and Environment Sanitation Administrative Bureau said. Due to the power shortages caused by severe winter weather, the festive lights went off on January 31 and would stay off for the full holiday period, which ends on February 12, it said.
Image: A night view of Lujiazui Financial District in central Shanghai, January 31, 2008. by Xinhua.
