More than 100,000 people from all walks of life in the city helped make their local environment a cleaner, healthier place to live during an annual clean-up campaign that ran from September 17 to 19, according to the Shanghai Public Sanitation Bureau.
More than 40 million volunteers in over 100 countries and regions take part in the "Clean Up the World" campaign, which falls on the third weekend in September each year.
Over the past three days, volunteers helped clean up more than 100 sites and distribute more than 500,000 brochures on the environmental protection.
At Yuyuan Garden area in Huangpu District on Saturday, volunteers signed their names on balloons and hung them in trees to wish for a cleaner, more beautiful world, while sanitation workers in Pudong worked to get rid of the floating refuse in the Huangpu River and clean up the surrounding facilities like docks and flood-control walls.
Students and volunteers in every district all took action to clean up the public facilities such as telephone booths and street guardrails over the weekend.
"We wanted them to know more about how to protect the environment and hoped them to begin with their indoor environment first," said Liu Weiguang, the spokesman for the Shanghai Pubic Sanitation Bureau.