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Wi-Fi in Beijing’s public toilets

According to an announcement of the Beijing Environment Sanitation Engineering Group in early October, Beijing will provide extra services in 14,000 public toilets by providing Wi-Fi connections, automatic teller machines and charging facilities for electric vehicles. If the move proves to be successful, it may be promoted nationwide.

The plan is to diversify functions of public toilets, which have been notorious nationwide for being unsanitary. The toilets will optimize inner space to create a public room that will be equipped for additional recharge payments, ATMs and self-service for train and flight tickets. Users can surf the Internet via free Wi-Fi and even borrow books from a library inside the public toilet.