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China's 'Toilet Revolution' Is Flush With Lavish Loos

China has sunk $3 billion into the building or renovating of 68,000 public bathrooms, with sometimes strange results: Outhouses that look like castles, homes, even human faces.
A new public toilet at a park in China's southwestern Guizhou province. Don't worry — the fence keeps it private.

Filthy, stinky, scarce and hard to find. Toilet paper, soap, hot water and hand dryers are too much to ask. Consider yourself lucky if the person before you aimed correctly and remembered to flush. That's what many Chinese public bathrooms are like.

According to the authorities, some 4.3 billion domestic and overseas visitors are subjected to these embarrassing conditions at China's

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