BEIJING: A street cleaner in southwestern China has been taking her mentally retarded husband to work with her for three years because there is no one to care for him at home.
As Chen Rong, 51, swept a 4,000-square-metre area in Dujiangyan, Sichuan province, each day, her husband, Liu Jianming, would follow her carrying a dustpan in his hand, the Chengdu Economic Daily reported.
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