About 2,500 sets of mobile toilets will be installed in downtown Beijing to accommodate the needs of up to 200,000 participants during China's National Day celebration, the Beijing Times reported Saturday.
Vehicle-mounted mobile toilets, washrooms accessible for the disabled and toilets that have been used during the 2008 Beijing Olympics will be available near the Tian'anmen Sqaure and along the Chang'an Avenue, the newspaper quoted local sanitation authority.
The Tian'anmen Square and the Chang'an Avenue are the major sites for the celebration.
The Beijing Environment Sanitation Engineering Group Co., Ltd was quoted as saying it will add more mobile toilets had they not become a nuisance for public transportation.
The first round of rehearsal for the massive National Day celebration, which was held in Tian'anmen Square in late August, featured a mass pageant involving nearly 200,000 citizens and 60 simulated floats, a gala by around 12,000 performers and a military review.
Despite the rehearsal was held after midnight and one month ahead of the actual show on Oct. 1, the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it attracted a large audience of citizens.
According to statistics released by a Beijing municipal government official last March, with more than 5,000 public toilets, Beijing has already become the world's No. 1 metropolis with public toilets concerned.
(Xinhua News Agency September 5, 2009)
