media - Have Shanghai' parks a problem ?

When China's media start talking about a problem the country might have it mostly is worthwhile to look at the background for a twist. Apart from distorting the truth, like when they reported about the large number of musea in Shanghai, there might also be other things going on.
Take this Xinhua article about the problems in the large number of parks in Shanghai. Here there is no problem with the numbers, I enjoy often strolls myself in the now 122 mostly newly established parks in the booming city, mostly the Xujiahui park on a two minutes walk from my apartment. It is a proof that the local government can push also other priorities than only tall buildings.
But according to the government news agency there are major problems:

But visitors are often hassled by beggars and fortune-tellers, and put off by the smell of urine left behind by someone using the grass as a toilet.

Now, those were problems I would encounter much more in other parts of the city and hardly in the well-policed Xujiahui Park, that is stuffed with public toilets. A quote gives a hint of a slightly different problem in the eyes of the authorities:

"The regulations were laid out many years ago and many parts are not in line with the need for maintenance of the increasing number of free parks," said Gao. Patrols could be introduced to help park managers.

Indeed, especially on hot summer evenings those parks are used for even hotter sexual exchanges, although not as explicit as you would sometimes see them in Europe. That seems to worry the authorities more than the beggards.