beijing launches campaign to end spitting
Beijing is launching a campaign to stamp out widespread public spitting in an effort to clean up its image for the 2008 Olympics.
The government has concluded that spitting is the city’s “most serious bad habit,” Zhang Huiguang, director of Beijing’s Capital Ethics Development Office, said Wednesday.
Zhang said officials will launch an advertising campaign on radio, television, the Internet and mobile phones to “teach people the right way to spit.”
“For example, you have to spit into a tissue or a bag, then place it in a dustbin to complete the process,” she said.
Those without a bag handy needn’t worry. Zhang said her office has organized a small army of volunteers who are already hitting Beijing’s streets, handing out small “spitting bags” and wearing bright orange uniforms with the Chinese character “tan” — “mucus” — printed in yellow on the back.
boston.com