A Beijing man hopes to rid the city of flies in time for the Olympic Games.
A retired restaurateur is buying flies for 30 cents each, to try and clean up Beijing in time for the Olympics.
His efforts follow recent Government campaigns to stop spitting in the street, littering and queue-jumping.
The fly eradication plan has echoes of Mao Zedong's "four harms" strategy in the 1950s.
Chairman Mao urged citizens to kill flies, mosquitos, rats and sparrows.
That campaign went wrong when a fall in sparrow numbers resulted in a boom in crop-destroying insects that the birds normally ate.
Today's 60-year-old fly killer says he was inspired when he noticed the mass of flies around the entrance to his old restaurant.
He reportedly said it was "extremely disgusting".
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