China’s Ministry of Culture on Wednesday (Nov 12) released a draft of new regulations to gather public opinions on commercial performances related matters; among the proposed regulation is to ban lip-syncing in commercial events in the country.
If the proposal is approved, artists who lip-sync will be penalised, and repeated offenders will have their performance license revoked.
It’s not the first time that such suggestion is made; a people’s representative had proposed similar idea in 2005, but didn’t manage to get much response.
Ironically the new proposal is made just months after the scandalous lip-synching at the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony in which a background singer was used while having another kid lip-syncing at the centre of the stage.
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i support this.
if you’re a singer, your job is to sing, not pretend to sing.
i really don’t appreciate lipsyncing, unless it’s not the singer’s choice.
half of the hk and taiwan artists will have problem singing in china if the rule is pass.