Zhengzhou has banned all newspaper stands in the city, on grounds that they obstructed traffic, especially the lanes for the blind along the pavement, The People's Daily reported.

But the unavailability in buying newspapers and magazines have created a big inconvenience for locals, who claim newspaper stands have become a part of the city's collective memories. In addition, newspaper stands also deal mobile telecom business and utility bills.

Those in favor of the move argued that Zhengzhou wasn't the only city in China that banned newspaper stands, noting Nanjing and Beijing were either eliminating them or have plans to.

Under pressure, municipality authorities are mulling issuing the franchises to convenience stores, a win-win result.

(China.org.cn June 6, 2012)

《人民日?qǐng)?bào)》報(bào)道，鄭州拆除了全市所有報(bào)亭，理由是報(bào)亭占道經(jīng)營(yíng)、阻礙交通，尤其是盲道幾乎全被擠占。

但買書報(bào)困難給當(dāng)?shù)厥忻裨斐闪藰O大不便。市民稱報(bào)亭已經(jīng)成為城市集體記憶的一部分。而且報(bào)亭還受理移動(dòng)通信業(yè)務(wù)和公共事業(yè)賬單。

贊成這項(xiàng)舉措的人強(qiáng)調(diào)鄭州并非是我國(guó)唯一禁止報(bào)亭的城市，指出南京、北京等地已經(jīng)開始或打算這么做。

迫于壓力，鄭州市政府目前考慮“退路進(jìn)店”——給便利店發(fā)放賣報(bào)許可，被認(rèn)為是一個(gè)雙贏的決策。