China to show off clean toilets, for 2008 olympics Options

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BEIJING (Reuters) - Beijing, wary of offending Olympic visitors' sensitivities, plans to renovate 1,000 public toilets in its suburbs in 2007, state media reported on Tuesday.

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Planning officials would also strive to keep its notoriously malodorous back-street toilets disinfected and deodorised, Xinhua news agency said.

"All the toilets should be clean, water-conserving and installed with efficient ventilation equipment," Xinhua quoted Lu Haijun, director of the City Planning Committee, as saying.

By the end of 2006, more than 5,580 public toilets in Beijing had reached "the modern standard", Xinhua said, but the city's goal of ensuring a public toilet within five minutes' walk of any location remained elusive.

To solve the problem, the Beijing municipal government would build more toilets, and had "asked some 3,000 commercial buildings to open their toilets to the public", Xinhua said.

ugh. that is disgusting. isnt this what they should be doing anyway? even without all the tourists/athletes coming?

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LOL!

Asian toilets are disgusting. They're like basically holes in the ground encased with vitreous china and then you flush it. I remember squatting all the time to pee when I was little. There's nowhere to sit! And if guys tend to miss the toilet, can you imagine what a girl's bathroom was like with that type of toilet?

But anyways, I'm extremely glad & impressed with the renovations China are making for the Olympics.