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Unsung heroes keep Beijing spic´n span

Source: China Daily | 08-22-2008 13:36

Special Report:   2008 Beijing Olympic Games

In the late 1980s, Beijing's sanitation workers were described as "covered with dust on sunny days, covered with mud on rainy days."

For both sanitation workers and the city they serve, a lot has changed in terms of both collection and treatment of rubbish since those days. It is especially evident these days in the city as the 2008 Olympic Games continues to dazzle.

Workers clean up the artificial lake surrounding the Bird's Nest. [China Daily]
Workers clean up the artificial lake surrounding the Bird's Nest. 
[China Daily]

Thirty-nine-year-old Li Chunguo drives a truck to collect rubbish in Beijing's streets and alleys every day. And he is proud of his job.

A migrant worker from a village near Chengde in neighboring Hebei province, he came to Beijing 19 years ago take a job shunned by most local residents. He works for the Beijing Environment Sanitation Engineering Company, the largest State-owned sanitation enterprise serving Beijing.