"China's Communist party has announced plans to clamp down on the "reckless" hordes of elderly dancers that have transformed the country's once orderly parks and squares into a disco inferno. Millions of amateur dancers take to the streets of China's cities each evening to engage in wildly popular sessions of "square dancing". However, following a growing number of complaints about noise pollution and congested pavements, Beijing has decided to act. News rules are being drawn up to regulate where square dancing can take place, at what time and – crucially – at what volume. Meanwhile an "expert panel" has been created to devise a menu of 12 state-sanctioned dance routines that China's grandma groovers will be allowed to perform. "Square dancing represents the collective aspect of Chinese culture, but now it seems that the overenthusiasm of participants has dealt it a harmful blow with disputes over noise and venues. So we have to guide it with national standards and regulations," Liu Guoyong, the sports official who leads China's "mass fitness department" told state media." - Jessie

" Wang Guangcheng, a fitness expert who is leading the regulatory panel, said the rules were essential. "All the negative comments on square-dancing are about reckless practicing without caring about the public benefits. The unified drills will help keep the dancing on the right track where they can be performed in a socially responsible way." Attempts to regulate the spontaneous square dance community ruffled feathers among aficionados such as Tang Qing, a 42-year-old from Jiangsu province. "The beauty of dance lies in the differences between everyone's steps," said Ms Tang, whose online square dance videos have attracted hundreds of thousands of hits. " - Jessie

" Yang Liping, a 35-year-old famed for her choreography for a viral track celebrating president Xi Jinping, said she would stick to her own moves. "I will still dance with the moves I have designed." Internet users attacked the move as an attempt to draw yet another aspect of Chinese life under Communist Party control. "Is this more suppression of cultural innovation?" asked one user of Weibo, China's answer to Twitter. Another expressed exasperation at the party poopers behind the rules. "Not even the square dance can escape ideology." " - Jessie