More, not fancier, public toilets in real need

Hopping onto the bandwagon of the national development strategy Internet Plus, the nation's capital Beijing is planning to build its own "public toilet plus".

The Beijing Environment Sanitation Engineering Group rolled out an ambitious plan recently to smarten up the capital's 14,000 public toilets under its operations.

According to a preliminary plan, a series of extra services, such as free Wi-Fi, automatic teller machines and charging facilities for cellphones, could be available in the city's public toilets in the near future.