A blogger from the South China Morning Post has published a rather interesting story: a new policy in Dongguan is forcing hotels, KTV joints, brothels, and internet cafes to subscribe to several party newspapers, including the People’s Daily.
The blog post doesn’t say which policy this is or which level of government introduced it, but we assume it must be the Tangsha District government as that’s where the regulation will be enforced.
Naturally, the blogger says, this has drawn derision from those on Weibo:
“Do we expect prostitutes to read People’s Daily now?” said a Sina Weibo user.
Dongguan’s sleazy salons and hotels have been known to provide illegal erotic services.
“We finally have toilet paper in our hotels now,” said another Weibo user.
Some party papers are quite hard to find way down here in Dongguan, so all the more incentive for CPC fans to swing by their nearest bath-house for the latest news on the National People’s Congress. They aren’t hard to find, anyway.