China celebrate the National Day (October 1st) every year. This year is the 60th celebration and it will be a grand gathering as the No. 1 leader in China – Hu Jintao will give a keynote speech at the Tian’anmen Square. Just to tell you how much the Chinese government cares about this event, Beijing is wiping out mosquitoes, flies, rats and cockroaches around the Tian’anmen square to make sure participants of the 60th National Day celebrations are free from epidemics and bites.
The Beijing Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) carried out extermination sweeps on Aug. 18, 21, 24 and 28 – and plans to do it again on Sept. 4, 11 and 25 – around Tian’anmen Square and adjacent streets, including the Tian’anmen Rostrum and the Memorial Hall of Chairman Mao. The campaigns, all at night to avoid affecting the public, aim to prevent epidemics and exterminate the four pests, especially rats and mosquitoes. Rats could eat electric cables and mosquitoes could bite and annoy people gathering in the square on October 1 to celebrate the60th anniversary of the founding of new China.