More family toilets for Shanghai

Family restrooms will make up almost a third of public toilets in downtown Shanghai next year, the city government has announced.

The facilities, to be built new or added to existing restrooms, will have space for parents and children, changing tables for infants and handrails for elderly or disabled users, according to the Shanghai Administration of Afforestation and City Appearance.

"So my husband doesn't need to worry about which bathroom to take our 4-year-old daughter," mother Liu Yuanyi said after hearing the news. "He always feels awkward going in the women's, and he is worried about letting her go in alone."