Where Fireworks Come From

Dec 14th, 2011 by thegooddoctor in 100 Words

Every Spring Festival, the Chinese people explode millions of fireworks. Most people never think to ask where those fireworks come from, or how they make the journey from factory to consumer.

Every firework, from the smallest firecracker to the most ornate skyrocket, are made in one remote village in the mountains of Sichuan. The only outsiders who are allowed to set foot in the town are the truck drivers who haul the pyrotechnics to market.

Perhaps, if government officials took the time to uncover the truth of what happens there, the giant panda would no longer be an endangered species.

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