Tian'anmen Square suffers garbage headache

时间：2006-10-05 06:16:20

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Oct. 4 - As China's week-long National Day vacation started from Sunday this year, Beijing's sanitation1 workers have been kept even busier to sweep the Tian'anmen Square which received nearly three million visitors over the past two days.

 

The municipal sanitation department has sent 400 sanitation workers to clean the square around the clock. They have cleared away nearly 80 tons of rubbish left by the tourists during the past two days.

 

"There were 1.45 million people visiting the Square respectively on the firs and the second day of October," said Zhang Zhiqiang, an official who is in charge of the sanitation work for the Tian'anmen Square during the National Day holiday.

 

"On Oct. 1 alone, our sanitation workers swept out 39.8 tons (87,761 lbs.) of garbage," he said, "and they collected and moved away another 39.5 tons (87,100 lbs.) of garage the next day."

 

The garage include plastic bags, newspapers, packages of drinks and food, and camera film boxes. Some of them were left by people who stay overnight on the Square for the national flag raising ceremony.

 

It has been a tradition for Chinese, both visitors and some local residents, to pay a visit to the Square during the National Day holiday. The Square, the largest city square in the world occupying an area of 440,000 square meters, or about the size of 63 football fields, is usually decorated with plants and lights for this special occasion.

 

China's National Day falls on Oct. 1, the date when late Chinese leader Mao Zedong declared the founding of New China in 1949. The National Day became the first week-long holiday in 1999 when the State Council, the Chinese cabinet, promulgated2 a new regulation to prolong three festivals into week-long holidays.

 

Chinese people who have never been able to enjoy such a long holiday before showed their huge enthusiasm -- the country has received 28 million home tourists and cashed in 14.1 billion yuan (about 1.76 billion U.S. dollars) of tourism income.

 

The two others week-long holidays are the Spring Festival, China's Lunar New Year, and the Labor3 Day on May 1.

 
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1 sanitation GYgxE     
n.公共卫生，环境卫生，卫生设备
参考例句：
  • The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
  • Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。
2 promulgated a4e9ce715ee72e022795b8072a6e618f     
v.宣扬（某事物）( promulgate的过去式和过去分词 )；传播；公布；颁布（法令、新法律等）
参考例句：
  • Hence China has promulgated more than 30 relevant laws, statutes and regulations. 中国为此颁布的法律、法规和规章多达３０余项。 来自汉英非文学 - 白皮书
  • The shipping industry promulgated a voluntary code. 航运业对自律守则进行了宣传。 来自辞典例句
3 labor P9Tzs     
n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦
参考例句：
  • We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
  • He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

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