China’s Yulin local government has distanced itself from a controversial dog meat festival in southern China after years of activism unleashed a groundswell of public opposition to the event.
The lychee and dog meat summer solstice festival in Yulin, Guangxi province, was formally established by the city government in 2009 to promote tourism but quickly turned into an ugly annual fight.
But this year the Yulin government reassured a concerned HK legislator that the city authorities would work towards ending the festival “as soon as possible”, without specifying any time frame.
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