A QR code is seen on a post on Beijing's Chang'an Avenue. (Photo/Beijing Times)
(ECNS) -- More than 1,100 public facilities along Beijing's famous Chang'an Avenue have all been tagged with QR codes so that citizens can provide feedback and help improve management, Beijing Youth Daily reports.
The QR codes appear on garbage bins, benches, bus stop shelters, road signs and telephone booths along the Fuxingmen-Jianguomen section of the avenue.
Using their smartphones, residents can scan the codes to find information and provide evaluations such as "dirty", "unusable or left unused", "broken", "having illegal ads" or "obstructing passage". Such information will be passed to city authorities.
Beijing plans to expand the QR code pilot program to another 50 major streets next year, including those in the Central Business District, the Zhongguancun high-tech area in the west of the city and the core area of the 2008 Olympics, the paper said, adding that efforts would be made to expand the program to cover the entire city in 2017.
