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Q: how can I get paid for beach cleaning
I saw a thing about some guy (an expat) cleaning his street/neighborhood... so I am wondering how to get "paid" to do this stuff ......... I do it all the time, go to the beach and pick up plastic bags ..I have a piece of a beach (100m) picked out to be pristine in a month...... they should give me a 100RMB for doing it.. what do you think?
You won't get paid to do any beach cleaning. If you've read that article on the homepage you'd know that it won't happen. An elderly man from the U.S. was cleaning his neighborhood/city up and they didn't pay him anything. So why would you expect any different? (
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He he, I said: "why"!
I doubt you can get paid, but if you want something from your efforts get hold of a local journalist and ask if they would like to do a story on laowei behavior and then show them you spare time hobby of street cleaning, maybe spiced up with lingering on the beach until you see locals littering.
Red_Fox:
I am sorry to disabuse you, but laowai behavoir will never be admired for its virtues. Have you noticed that most news headlines here are about "evil" and "profligate" laowai? No Chinese news outlet (and I work in media) will do a story on an expat Pollyanna (ok, except for that dude that helped an elderly woman at some airport last year). But they will cover, en masse, an expat accused of protecting his family from home invaders or a guilty (before proven innocent or guilty) pedophile - rightly or wrongly - charged with gross misconduct.
Don't know where you're from, but if you know anything about Fox News in the States, take Fox to the nth degree and give it a Chinese tag. Result? CCTV and all the rest of the "fair and balanced" news outlets in China.
Scandinavian:
You are right it is not likely that anyone would pick up such a story, still as I see a monetary reward as even more unlikely, trying to better the society would be the way to go.
Not from the states, but my favorite news anchor is Kent Brockman.
Red_Fox:
I don't disagree with you, my friend. Civic duty is all about bettering society wherever we live. But I would rather do my duty and live without the publicity.
Anyway... I've been out of the States for so long, I really don't know your favorite news anchor. What network? I'll google his name and see if I can find him on YouTube.
You know, BHGAL, I saw the headline and glanced at the article about an American retiree in China who gets a bit of outdoor exercise cleaning up a park or a beach. Don't remember. Think it was a stretch of a park. The dude is retired and has nothing better to do with his time and it makes him feel good. He doesn't need the money even if city hall were to offer to pay him. (Fat f*ckin' chance.) He probably has a pretty good pension coming from home every month and is enjoying his little excursions to the park and doing his "civic duty" to "pay it forward".
Now, I'll bet most of his Chinese neighbors think he's an absolute nutter for "working" for free. It wouldn't surprise me if he's a bit of a laughing stock in his barrio. Nice. Makes the rest of us look a bit like jerks since we're all stereotyped anyway, right?
What are the old fart's motives? A bit of exercise? Civic duty? Wanna teach his neighbors a lesson in civility? The latter two are lost causes.
So. In answer to your question, no one will pay you to clean a beach in China. Go to Malibu and you stand a better chance at receiving a monthly stipend from the LA Parks & Recreation Dept. But... you may be competing with an old, retired Chinese guy who has been living in LA for the past 40 years and will do it for free... 
