At the beginning of the month, Beijing officials vowed to crack down on the citys dancing grannies by issuing fines to anyone playing loud music in public spaces. While this news was a relief for some, many Beijingers felt badly for the elderly ladies who gather in groups to socialize and excercise.

Well, it looks like a solution that will please all parties may have been found: headphones. Thats right, community workers recently started issuing special wireless headphones to troupes of dancing grannies, Beijing Daily reports. So now they not only get to keep square dancing, but they get to listen to music too.

So far, these headphones have been issued in 11 communities in northwest Beijing.

Regardless of whether its students preparing for their university entrance exam, workers on the night shift, or women who just gave birth, none of them want noise, Sun Renping, a leader of one dance group, told Beijing Daily. We tried to lower the volume, but we couldnt hear it ourselves.

Luckily community workers had the brilliant idea to contact a headphone manufacturer in Guangdong. The company actually produces headphones for dancing grannies. These special headphones play music from a nearby music player using a wireless signal. Therefore, groups of dancing grannies can listen to the same song and dance in unison without disturbing their neighbors.

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