China reportedly bans bullfights

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

 

 

China reportedly bans bullfights

 

" China has decided not to allow bullfights, " International

Movement Against Bullfights coordinator Maria Lopes e-mailed to

supporters on Feb-ruary 7, 2010, citing " several Spanish newspapers

published today. " The Spanish newspapers reported that a plan by

matador Manolo Sanchez to build a 7,000-seat bull ring in the Beijing

suburb of Huairou had been scuttled.

The Spanish accounts were not immediately confirmed by

Chinese media, but the Beijing Global Times on January 27, 2010

reported about Chinese opposition to repeated attempts to introduce

Spanish-style bullfighting to China.

Global Times noted that Huairou officials had developed doubts

about the project. Global Times mentioned that bullfighting was

recently banned in Catalona province, Spain, and that the number of

bullfights held in Spain dropped 30% in 2009. Global Times noted that

news about efforts to promote bullfighting in China has usually been

reported first in Spain.

A Portuguese-style bullfight was held in Shanghai in 2004,

but plans to build a 6,400-seat bull ring at the Beijing Wild Animal

Park were cancelled later that year.

 

 

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