Beijing to Clean Up Toilets in Bid for Olympics
B E I J I N G, China, Dec. 4 -- Beijing has decided to bring its public toilets up to Olympic gold standards in its pursuit of the 2008 Games, the China Daily said today.
The toilets will be given one to four stars, the newspapersaid.
“For example, four-star toilets should have granite floors,sufficient lighting, lively music, facilities to wash hands,tissues, automatic flush, hand dryers and bathrooms speciallydesigned for disabled and old people,” it said.
Beijing is one the of final candidates to host the 2008Games, competing against Paris, Osaka, Istanbul and Toronto.
“However, it still lags far behind other cities in terms ofits public toilets,” said the paper, which did not say whatfacilities the one to three star toilets would have.
It said the city government had given itself two years tocomplete the Herculean task of cleaning up its often dirty,cramped and squat-style toilets following a deluge ofcomplaints.
The Beijing Consumers’ Association received a large numberof complaints about the state of the city’s toilets duringOctober’s National Day holiday, the newspaper said.
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