Spitters being fined in major Chinese cities is not news. The national movement of “Five Stresses and Four Points of Beauty” (‰∫îËÆ≤ÂõõÁæéÔºâ has banned spitting in public for many years and linked spitting with low moral standards. Still it does not work so well. Spitting has not been explained effectively as an unhealthy habit to the public. But now spitters will be fined for creating a bad city image. From Xinhua:
More than 50 people in the Chinese capital have been fined for spitting during the week-long Labor Day holidays, according to officials in charge of the city’s image…
Earlier reports said people spitting in the streets in Beijing will be fined up to 50 yuan (about 6.5 U.S. dollars)…
In Beijing, 50 yuan is about daily income of a Chinese college graduate and can buy 16 subway tickets or 100 packs of paper tissues. [Full Text]
(Photo: the poster of “Five Stresses and Four Points of Beauty”)
