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Pedestrians pass a billboard promoting the Beijing Olympic Games at Xujiahui in downtown Shanghai yesterday. It features Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt, the current world record holder in the 100 meters event, in Beijing Opera mask make-up.
Moves to make Games greener
Created: 2008-7-6
TIANJIN, one of the co-host cities for the Beijing Olympics, will ban construction at key building sites and limit factory sewage from July 25 to September 20 to help improve the environment for the Games.
Tianjin will halt construction work on 26 building sites around the Olympic stadiums, including the construction of its subway Line 3.
The city will suspend some operations at 40 factories, including two cement factories and six factories which cause effluvial contamination, officials said. It will also strictly prohibit the transportation of dangerous chemicals between 7am and 10pm daily during the Olympic Games.
Yesterday, China called on all citizens to improve their professional ethics and adopt good manners to create a sound social environment for the Games.
Local governments, especially those of the host and co-host cities - including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Shenyang and Qingdao - should step up their efforts in promoting civilized manners and social volunteering, according to the Publicity Department and the Office of the Spiritual Civilization Development Steering Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
They should also improve public order, and both urban and rural environment, the two organizations said at a national meeting in Beijing yesterday.
A series of activities - including a publicity campaign for social volunteering, a knowledge contest for promoting good manners, public-interest advertisements and finding role models for good ethical behavior - have already been successfully launched, the organizations said.
The organizations called for more training in professional ethics for workers in the service industry, and greater efforts to make the urban and rural environment clean, green and safe.
Tianjin will halt construction work on 26 building sites around the Olympic stadiums, including the construction of its subway Line 3.
The city will suspend some operations at 40 factories, including two cement factories and six factories which cause effluvial contamination, officials said. It will also strictly prohibit the transportation of dangerous chemicals between 7am and 10pm daily during the Olympic Games.
Yesterday, China called on all citizens to improve their professional ethics and adopt good manners to create a sound social environment for the Games.
Local governments, especially those of the host and co-host cities - including Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Qinhuangdao, Shenyang and Qingdao - should step up their efforts in promoting civilized manners and social volunteering, according to the Publicity Department and the Office of the Spiritual Civilization Development Steering Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
They should also improve public order, and both urban and rural environment, the two organizations said at a national meeting in Beijing yesterday.
A series of activities - including a publicity campaign for social volunteering, a knowledge contest for promoting good manners, public-interest advertisements and finding role models for good ethical behavior - have already been successfully launched, the organizations said.
The organizations called for more training in professional ethics for workers in the service industry, and greater efforts to make the urban and rural environment clean, green and safe.
Xinhua
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