About 160 five-star public toilets designed like the Forbidden City or the Bird's Nest have been built since 2008 at a total cost of 50 million yuan ($8 million) in Linfen, Shanxi province. It is a typically profligate use of taxpayers' money and another instance of ignored public interests, says an...

Yaodu Square [docsx.gov.cn]Linfen City is situated in the southwest of Shanxi Province, in the middle reaches of the Yellow River.There are two cities, one district, fourteen counties and two economic and technological development zones under its jurisdiction. It covers 20,275 square kilometers, and...