Posted on 04/24/2002 6:05:49 PM PDT by Hopalong
Xinhuanet 2001.08.15 15:11:56
BEIJING August ¨Xinhuanet--Flush with cash to provide the city's toilet facilities Beijing plans to improve every lavatory at all its tourist attractions by the end of 2002 according to today's China Daily.
A pot of 240 million yuan US$29 million has been set up by the municipal government to build or fix toilets, a movement prompted by constant public complaints.
Already 70 toilets have been constructed or renovated at five major historical sites including the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace and the Temple of Heaven, Beijing tourism official Zhou Shuyu said.
"We also stepped our efforts to make the appearance of toilets harmonious with the scenic spots," Zhou said. "The toilets that sit amid ancient architecture must also be in the ancient style."
Zhou, who oversees public toilets, noted all facilities at historical and scenic sites will be free of charge.
Foreign tourists have complained vociferously about unsanitary toilet conditions in China.
"Of the 206 tour-related complaints received during last October's week-long National Day holiday 20 per cent mentioned that there were few good toilets at tourist attractions, " said Yang Weiyuan, an official with the Beijing Consumers' Association.
But the improvements that have already been made have prompted immediate results.
"We have not received any complaints on toilets this year," Yang said.
The new bathrooms have improved odors and better overall hygiene.
"Our goal is to make things convenient for our tourists, whether you are a man, woman, baby, child, senior citizen or a person with a disability," Zhou said.
One key improvement is equipping toilets with flushing devices that do not require human touch. The infrared trigger reduces the chance of tourists contracting bacterial infections, officials said.
Women's lavatories will be 20 per cent bigger than men's to provide bigger space for women to make up. In the pastthey were half the size of the men's rooms.
The ladies' rooms also will have desks, beds or chairs to diaper babies and make mothers more comfortable while feeding.
Special lavatory pans designed for the disabled and for children will be provided.
Zhou said workers will receive special training to ensure optimal loos.
Tourists, too, may need some potty training. At the Summer Palace, two infrared devices have been destroyed through misuse, park officials said.
More money for this effort is likely to be poured in as more toilets are built and renovated before the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
They don't have to install them --- they are alive and well!
If there are going to be Western flush toilets, I wonder just how long they will be useful. The infrastructure in China is not the best. I've been in brand new hotels and already the plumbing was deficient in just a few months. These were hotels off the beaten track, and not in Beijing, so perhaps there is hope.
Hush—State Secret #3,400,567a.
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As for the ChiComs, they have it backwards, as usual. If they stop treating people like it they might stop smelling like it.
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Get it the old fashion way, BUY them from the restroom caretakers. I remember when I was a kid in Taiwan the caretaker of the Train station restrooms made good money by selling toilet paper.
One of my relatives later invented a vending machine for toilet paper. It had few years of good business.
or, with a Mexican touch, say:
or, even with a slightly racy touch, to wit:
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Best regards. Hop.
True enough, but there alone there's a potential market of, say, fifty-three to fifty-five million triple A souls, no?
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"'The more you are afraid of it, the more cruel it becomes,' she said."
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The Chinese population is capable of generating well over a billion turds per day.
If not disposed of properly, they'd be wading through $hit deeper than that produced by Congress in about 15 years.
Still, we're talking effortless la ba ba here, not kaiopectate.
Sort of like apples and oranges, nature and nurture, thesis and antithesis, yin and yang.
Heavy, heavy dialectic, if you know what I mean.
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Haven't talked to a man who might know lately, but I'll ask when I do, since there seems to be such widespread interest.
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This co-worker had a suit on, and needing to go to the john, dropped trou and bent over the hole in the floor.
So as not to soil his pants, he held on to the handle on the stall door so he could lean way backwards over the hole.
With that, the door broke and the hinges on the door came off, sending him to the floor over the hole, with the broken door pinning him down over his chest. Fifteen minutes later, another guy in the party went in to check up on this guy, and he was still pinned to the floor.
Later he emerged with his suit pants totally soiled, as he hightailed it to his hotel room to shower.
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Hu Jintao (1942- ), native of Jixi, Anhui Province. Vice president of the People's Republic of China; vice chairman of CPC Central Military Commission and PRC Central Military Commission; Standing Committee member of the Political Bureau, and member of the Secretariat, of 15th CPC Central Committee; president of CPC Party School.Hu, who had aspired to be an engineer in the field of water conservancy and hydroelectric power generation, became the youngest member of the CPC Central Committee in 1982, when he was 39.
At the age of 44, he became secretary of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee, again the youngest among his peers. At the end of 1988, when turmoil erupted in Tibet, Hu was appointed secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Party Committee. People then noticed that he was the only Party chief in Tibet with a civilian background. his predecessors had all come from the army.
Hu's rapid elevation through the Party's echelons is a reflection of the Party's long endeavour to cultivate and promote young cadres.
He once said success in life "requires resolve, attention to concrete matters and courage in making decisions....
See, I told you so—"concrete matters."
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Seems like a lot of trouble I know, but depending on where you are, you can now get up quickly and run somewhere else if you have too, and still have your trousers if you need them.
No doubt there's other ways, including union suits, but de gustibus, etc. Best regards.
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"If not, and there's time, boot off, one trouser leg off foot—same foot (though magicians and topologists probably have a way to get the other trouser leg off too)—boot back on (untied), squat (holding loose trouser leg)."
Sorry for any inconvenience.
Regards to all. S&W R.I.P.
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