Spitting issue
Chinese taxi drivers in the country’s financial capital of Shanghai are to be provided with "spit sacks" to prevent them spitting into the street.
The Shanghai Patriotic Sanitation Committee will issue 45,000 taxis with a sack, fixed to a metal grill which surrounds the driver’s seat.
Cabbies currently wind down their windows and spit on the side of the road.
Newspaper China Daily said: "The ‘no spitting’ regulation came after Shanghai decided to make people give up the ugly and unhygienic habit and present a healthy city for the 2010 World Expo." A previous measure had been to attach spittoons to the streets’ litter bins, but the public mistook them for ashtrays.
Organizers of the 2008 Beijing Olympics are worried that visitors will be disgusted by the city residents’ ill-mannered spitting and littering habits.
© bangshowbiz.biz
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