Strawberry not welcome at Tongzhou anymore…..

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EDIT: Our apologies. Apparently we got this wrong. According to Modern Sky, Strawberry Festival will be going ahead as usual at Tongzhou Canal Park in May. We are sorry for any confusion caused.

After 4 years based at Tongzhou Canal Park, (and having done a pretty good job promoting the Beijing suburb) Modern Sky’s Strawberry Festival will no longer be resident in Tongzhou. Actual reasons are unclear, but this is the latest in a series of measures that suggest Beijing is rapidly becoming the hardest place on earth to do festivals. With the 18th Congress coming up later this year and the transference of power, we imagine it won’t be getting easier any time soon.

It seems a shame that an event so well suited to a location and one that really brought a lot of media attention and foot traffic to the district has become persona non grata. Tongzhou has gentrified in a big way in the last couple of years and it was likely a combination of both these factors that signalled the end for Strawberry Tongzhou. We hope the festival will be back soon in another Beijing locale…….

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