China to build 600 ‘three-star’ toilets in top tourist region as part of ‘revo-loo-tion’
Plans in Yunnan province, known for its beautiful mountain scenery, come after complaints by tourists over problems of insanitary and poor quality toilets around nation.
As many as 600 “three-star-rated” toilets are expected to be built in one of China’s most popular tourist areas as part of the nation’s “toilet revo-loo-tion”.
The plan by Yunnan province’s committee of tourism development will see the local government spend 30 million yuan (about HK$38 million) every year until 2017 as part of the campaign to build new high-quality toilets and also upgrade existing facilities.
The target is for a total of 336 new toilets to be built at popular tourists destinations in Yunnan, which is famous for its beautiful mountains and countryside. A further 265 toilets are to be upgraded.
The committee said that in the past, tourists had complained about problems of insanitary, poor quality toilets at Yunnan’s tourist sites, which had harmed the image of tourism.
The new measures would “ensure the construction of toilets at tourist sites reaches a high level in the country, which will assist the province’s tourism industry”, news portal chinanews.com reported.
Yunnan province would also try to seek state subsidies for carrying out the work, chinanews.com said.