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     Largest public restroom from China set world record

[July 12] BEIJING --They're flush with pride in Chongqing, where a recently opened porcelain palace features an Egyptian facade, soothing music and more than 1,000 toilets spread out over 30,000 square feet.

  "We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."

  Photo:
  Chinese visit a four-story, free-of-charge public restroom in Chongqing, China Saturday July 7, 2007. (AP Photo)

   Officials in the southwestern Chinese city plan to ask Guinness World Records to have the free four-story public bathroom listed as the world's largest, state-run China Central Television reported Friday.

     World Record Academy,
the leading international organization which verify and certify new world records, has already certified this record as a world record. It will be included in our 2008 edition of the Book of World Records and Chinese officials can get their Certificate for this new World Record.

    "We are spreading toilet culture. People can listen to gentle music and watch TV," said Lu Xiaoqing, an official with the Yangrenjie, or "Foreigners Street," tourist area where the bathroom is located. "After they use the bathroom they will be very, very happy."
    Footage aired on CCTV showed people milling about the sprawling facility and washing their hands at trough sinks. For open-aired relief, there's a cluster of stalls without a roof.

   Some urinals are uniquely shaped, including ones inside open crocodile mouths and several topped by the bust of a woman resembling the Virgin Mary.

   "Other bathrooms are all the same. This one is very special, I've never seen anything like it," one visitor to the tourist area told CCTV.

   There are also plans to build a supermarket nearby, which will sell toilet-related items, CCTV reported.


   Video:
    CNN video: Largest public restroom in China

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   Largest public restroom in China photos


    Sources: CCTV, CNN, ABC, AP
, www.chinaview.cn