Beijing profiled: The City Has its Manners in Order

The citizens are anything but a throng of people, running toward an open door at the same time. Good manners are taking over the city of Beijing and hope to promote a successful Games.

Beijing organized an official citywide “Queuing Day” on 11 February 2007, leading off to a monthly occurrence on the eleventh day of each month. The Municipal Government introduced the initiative as part of the Good Manners Campaign for the Games.

Approximately 4,000 campaign guiders were street-bound for the launch, helping more than one million people line up at 1,800 different bus stops. The massive undertaking jumpstarted the now more organized, guide-free lines found at hospitals, supermarkets, post offices and other public places.