Zhao is a typical upper-echelon secretary. He dressed Mao suit buttoned up and put on glasses. His color of the face was pale and voice was reminded of strict personality.
Zhao handed over the participants' list to the mayor. The list was a for National Cleanup Week. The officials go out to join for sweeping in the street. The mayor looked the list very carefully. He found the Women's Federation was missing. Zhao told the mayor to pick him up at 1:30 then hurried out to prepare the new list.
When the mayor arrived at the square, he shook his hands with everyone waited for him.
An old policeman brought the bamboo broom for the mayor. Everyone started sweeping, either did the mayor. The square was huge, only the dust was back and forth.
A photographer from TV station came up to Zhao and asked him to line up them single file. The photographer requested they turn around because the sun was backlight. After finishing the street sweeping show, the mayor answered some questions from the reporters. He went home by his limousine. He took bath, as he went up the stairs to eat dinner, his grandson told him that he was on TV. On the screen, he was sweeping the street.
But he only said to his grandson "It's not worth watching. Let's go have dinner."

 Secretary Zhao handed the mayor a list which were written the names of all top city administrators and public figures who were going to participate in the street sweeping. The mayor saw it thoughtfully and pointed that there were none from the Women' Federation in the list. The mayor told women were the pillars of society, so we couldn't leave out their representatives as thought only a leader thought of everything. Then they decided to add two names from the Women's Federation.
At one-thirty that afternoon the mayor was whisked to the square in his limousine. All kind of people were out sweeping the streets, and the air was thick with dust. At the square there were many and various color of limousines. All top city administrators had gathered to wait for the mayor's arrival. And policemen stranded for guarding them on all sides. When the mayor got out of the limousine the officials in the waiting crowd stepped forward with smiling faces to greet the mayor. After greeting the mayor walked, at the head of the crowd, to the square where they were supposed to sweep with brooms.
The square was so huge and not dirty. Only litter was a popsicle wrapper, which they all pursued like children chasing a dragonfly.
Photographers kept on clicking shutters. And TV person requested them to be shot. They formed a long line to be shot regardless of whether there was any dirt on the ground.
The mayor went home after the sweeping and took a bath for washing away from dirt and exhaustion without labor. As he descended the stairs to eat dinner, his grandson hurriedly led him into the living room. He was on the television screen, like an actor, putting on show of sweeping the street. He turned away and said "it's not worth watching'.



 やたらにながくなっていました。簡潔に書けないのが情けないです。

It was the first day of "National Cleanup Week."
The mayor thoroughly checked the list, with 80 names of eminent people from various field in the city, who were supposed to participate in the street sweeping in Central Square that afternoon. He pointed out in bragged manner that there were no names from Women's Federation and ordered Secretary Zhao, hiding shifty and strong-willed personality under his polite manner, to put 2 more names from the field. The mayor was such a type of leader that wanted to know every detail of everything. No wonder that he was going to join the "Ceremony."
The mayor arrived at the square by his limousine after driving through a very dusty roads, full of people sweeping the streets. There 82 city top officials were waiting to welcome him.
It was really a ceremony or a show rather than "Cleanup Campaign."
He shook hands with many administrators first, and then led by a marshal, he strutted to the designated spot, with the neatest bloom prepared for him in his hand. 82 officials and a lot of photographers followed him. The spot was surrounded a lot of onlookers.
They started sweeping the spot, where there was no dirt. For a while they pretended as if they were sweeping, but as a matter of fact, what they did was to follow the instruction of a TV cameraman, who wanted to shoot a better motion picture of them. The sweeping performance didn't take so long. \\ The mayor left there in his limousine and got home, where a nice bath prepared by his servant was waiting for him. Although his grand son mentioned that he was on TV, he wasn't interested in it at all.