Two urban management officers, or chengguan, who disguised themselves as street vendors in Wuhan over the past month, intended to experience the life of peddlers in order to improve law enforcement in the city, local authorities said on Monday.
 

The urban management bureau of Hongshan district in the capital of Hubei province confirmed on Monday that the two people identified by netizens are its employees.
 

On Saturday, photos on a micro blog showed the two officers, Gui Wenjing and Yang Xi, selling teacups on the street, accompanied by a photo of one of them in a chengguan uniform, which soon became a hot topic on the Web.
 

They started a two-month mission on May 11 to experience the life of peddlers in the district, a publicity official from the bureau said at a news conference on Monday. After they were spotted by netizens, the mission was suspended, the official said on Monday.


In the past month, the two officers got to learn about the lives of more than 200 peddlers in the city's three main business streets. The two officers, disguised as peddlers, sold teacups and small items, according to the local chengguan bureau.The profits they made from street trading will be donated to charity, it said.
 

Gui Wenjing, who devised the plan, said it was aimed improving officers' handling of illegal street traders in the city. Both Gui and Yang have written long reports on their experiences on the streets, which will be released on Tuesday by the bureau.
 

The chengguan bureau said on Monday that it would seek suggestions from the public through micro-blogging websites and plans to further accelerate reforms of the working style of chengguan in order to improve law enforcement.

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