From the chinese press

Wrong approach to beggars

The Luohu district in Shenzhen in Guangdong province recently set up a rating system to assess the effectiveness of urban management partly based on the number of beggars on the street. Tolerance for the existence of beggars testifies to a city's civilization and the local authorities should rethink their move, says an article in Guangming Daily. Excerpts:

Assessing the performance of urban management officers by counting the number of beggars on the streets, means the urban management officers will try to remove beggars from the streets in order to earn a better assessment.