Toilet revolution benefits Kaiyang's rural residents

The ravishing countryside scenery in Kaiyang county [Photo/Kaiyang release]

The so-called "toilet revolution" has been put high on the agenda in Kaiyang county – administered by Guiyang, capital city of Southwest China's Guizhou province – in order to make the countryside more livable.

Since 2018, 61 rural domestic sewage treatment projects have been built in the county – and 1,002 sanitary toilets, 110 public toilets and 131 village-level public toilets have been built or rebuilt.

At present, Kaiyang has 262 public toilets in its 111 villages, with the coverage of village-level public health toilets in its administrative villages having reached 100 percent.

Meanwhile, the penetration rate of sanitary toilets has reached 85 percent, while both the waste disposal rate and resource utilization rate of toilets have exceeded 90 percent.

Through standardization of its rural toilet construction, standardization of management, marketization of operation and better supervision, conditions in Kaiyang have reportedly improved – helping to boost people's lives.