Civil servants allocated to clean streets

Two newly-employed civil servants Wang Xuejing (left) and Tao Chenlu (right) accompany a street cleaner - Deng Guiluan - to clean streets in Wuyi county, East China's Zhejiang province on Jan 8, 2012. Since the end of December 2012, the county government has launched a program to deploy its more than 40 newly-recruited civil servants to the downtown streets working as cleaners for a week. Each couple of civil servants will work with a professional cleaner in charge of a cleaning job covering an area of between 5,000 and 6,000 square meters. The move is aimed at increasing the young civil servants’ understanding of grassroots people. [Photo/Xinhua]

Two newly-recruited civil servants, Wu Kangjian (middle) and Liu Yu work together with a cleaner, Dong Yilong, to clean a street in Wuyi county in East China’s Zhejiang province, Jan 8, 2013. [Photo/Xinhua]