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Beijing to Clean Up Toilets in
Bid for Olympics
BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing has
decided to bring its public toilets up to Olympic gold standards in
its pursuit of the 2008 Games, the China Daily said on Monday.
The toilets will be given one to
four stars, the newspaper said.
"For example, four-star
toilets should have granite floors, sufficient lighting, lively
music, facilities to wash hands, tissues, automatic flush, hand
dryers and bathrooms specially designed for disabled and old
people,'' it said.
Beijing is one the of final
candidates to host the 2008 Games, competing against Paris, Osaka,
Istanbul and Toronto.
"However, it still lags far
behind other cities in terms of its public toilets,'' said the
paper, which did not say what facilities the one to three star
toilets would have.
It said the city government had
given itself two years to complete the Herculean task of cleaning up
its often dirty, cramped and squat-style toilets following a deluge
of complaints.
The Beijing Consumers' Association
received a large number of complaints about the state of the city's
toilets during October's National Day holiday, the newspaper said.
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