(Source: Beijing Municipal Government) When Chen first saw the well-appointed building at a remote scenic area in southwest China, he mistook it for a coffee house. 'It looked quite urban and had a lot of modern amenities inside,' said Chen, a tourist from Shanghai who preferred to be identified only by his family name. Thanks to government efforts to build or upgrade toilets over the past year, clean and modern toilets are now a common sight at Foguangyan Scenic Area in Guizhou Province, where public toilets were once smelly and filled with untreated waste and toilet paper. 'It was a nightmare to go to public toilets in the past,' Chen said, 'but now things are changing.' China has made...
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