170,000 old residential areas to be renovated involving millions of residents

On July 1, Huang Yan, Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, revealed at a regular policy briefing held by the State New Office that 170,000 old urban and rural residential districts in China are to be renovated, involving residents. Hundreds of millions of people. In accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Construction, priority should be given to the transformation of auxiliary facilities such as water, electricity, electricity and optical fibers in residential areas. Elevators can be installed in areas where conditions permit, supporting facilities such as old-age and child-care services, barrier-free facilities and parking garages should be built, and energy-saving transformation should be implemented. At the end of 2017, China officially launched a pilot project of renovating old residential areas in 15 cities such as Xiamen and Guangzhou. By December 2018, 106 old residential areas had been renovated in the pilot cities, benefiting 59,000 households, and a batch of replicable and popularizable experience coatingol.com had been formed. Next, the Ministry of Housing and Construction will continue to guide all localities to carry out pilot exploration in order to accumulate experience for further comprehensively promoting the renovation of old urban residential areas. It is reported that old urban residential areas refer to residential areas with long construction time, aging municipal supporting facilities and lack of public services. "These residential districts may have been built for more than 20 years. Because of the low design standards and the inadequate maintenance and maintenance, there are many problems, such as old-age pipe network, lack of supporting facilities such as pension, child care and property, road damage, disorder, private construction and so on. Huang Yan said.

"According to this year's bottom-up situation, there are 170,000 old residential areas to be renovated at present." Huang Yan introduced that in April this year, the Ministry of Housing and Construction, together with the Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Finance, issued documents requiring 31 provinces (municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps to conduct a comprehensive survey to collect the basic information of old urban districts that need to be renovated. By the end of May, 170,000 old urban districts, involving hundreds of millions of residents, had been reported to be in need of renovation. For the next step, Huang Yan said that on the basis of finding out the number of old residential areas, the pilot areas will find out the types of old residential areas in local cities and towns, residents'desire for transformation, and on this basis define the standards and scope of objects for the transformation of old residential areas in cities and towns. We should actively innovate the investment and financing mechanism for the renovation of old urban districts, including exploring sustainable ways to increase financial support, and using market-oriented ways to attract social forces to participate. At the same time, we will promote the establishment of a follow-up long-term management mechanism for residential areas.

Huang Yan said that the current practice has proved that the renovation of old urban residential areas does not cost much and benefits a wide range. It not only helps residents improve their basic living conditions, but also effectively enhances the people's sense of happiness, acquisition and security. It is also an important measure to expand investment to stimulate domestic demand. In the future, we will start with basic insurance and gradually improve and perfect it according to needs. According to the above principles, local governments should be guided to make changes according to local conditions and different projects.