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China Daily | Updated: 2008-06-19 07:39
除 "四害" (chu sihai)
Eliminate the Four Pests
A State effort to motivate the public to eliminate pests to improve public hygienic conditions and prevent epidemics carried by these pests.
Initiated in 1955, the four pests to be eliminated were rats, sparrows, flies and mosquitoes. In 1960, sparrows were removed from the list and bedbugs were included. Now, the four pests are rats, cockroaches, flies and mosquitoes. Special administrative departments in local governments organize annul campaigns to eliminate these pests and their habitats.
(China Daily 06/19/2008 page8)
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