17.jan.07
Reuters
BEIJING -- Jin Dapeng, director general of Beijing's health bureau, was cited as telling a news conference Wednesday that Beijing will shut restaurants that fail to meet basic sanitary standards as part of a drive to ensure food safety during the 2008 Olympic Games, adding that, "Any restaurant running without a sanitary licence, health certificate or not following the sanitary requirements will be closed starting today. Beijing will embrace friends from all over the world and we will make them feel safe and secure when eating in China."
The story notes that the Chinese capital's Health Bureau is in the process of classifying the city's 30,000 restaurants into four grades based on several factors, with the most important being sanitation.