Ganzhou Manghe (赣州芒禾) cancelled its music festival a week before gates

Manghe Music (芒禾音乐) planned a two-day festival at the music camp in Ganzhou's Rongjiang New District. Dates shifted from April to May 10–11; on 30 April the second day was cut, and on 3 May — a week before gates, with stage construction already under way — the whole festival was cancelled. The official notice blamed 'disagreements with local enterprise decision-making cycles'.

The numbers underneath were those of China's festival bust: 36Kr estimated artist fees alone at over ¥4 million, and the event ran on a ¥1.5 million government subsidy and venue-fee waivers that still did not balance the books. The first 10,000 tickets were discounted ¥100 each, and VIP two-day packages fell from about ¥900 to ¥688 and then ¥500 before the plug was pulled.

Manghe offered full refunds within 15 working days and compensation for fans' travel — actual train cancellation fees, and flight change fees capped at ¥1,500 per person one-way domestic and ¥3,000 international. The case landed as a marker of the 2025 cancellation wave: nearly 20 festivals cancelled in the first half of the year, with festival audiences down 34 percent year-on-year in the first quarter.