Yuhan Xu, China's 'Toilet Revolution' Is Flush With Lavish Loos. NPR, Feb 3, 2-18.
https://www.npr.org/sections/goa ... sh-with-lavish-loos
Note:
(a) loo (n; origin unknown): "chiefly British toilet"
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/loos
(b) "Potty pioneer Linfen 山西省临汾市 has been building strange and fancy restrooms since 2008. The coal-mining hub has 40 five-star public toilets * * * 12 four-star toilets and 60 standard bathrooms. * * * (The star designations are assigned by China's National Tourism Bureau [国家旅游局's official name is actually National Tourism Administration].) The city, which the government named an 'Excellent City in Toilet Revolution [临汾荣获全国“厕所革命优秀城市奖; sole recipient presented on Nov 19, 2017]' in 2017, plans to add [more amenities]."
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