In coastal city, anyone can be an inspector

It was an ordinary mid-July day in Qinhuangdao, a coastal city in Hebei province. Yang Sheng was on his way to work and happened to see an electrical power box covered in thick rust.

He stopped, took a picture with his cellphone and uploaded it to a digital management platform using an app called Citywide Management Inspectors. He wrote a brief description of the problem and gave the location of the box.

The whole process took about two minutes.