Building a future "rental living community", over 5400 talent apartments will be released one after another, adjacent to Hongqiao Airport
On August 31st, a reporter from Liberation Daily and Shangguan News learned during the special event of the Changning District Government's "High quality Development in Shencheng" series of theme city government press conferences that within a 3-kilometer core radius of Hongqiao Business District, Changning District has built a comprehensive rental community with an area of 380000 square meters for young talents with housing needs throughout the city - Hongqiao Talent Apartments. The western and southern plots will be completed by the end of this year and put into trial operation early next year. In recent years, Changning District has continuously made breakthroughs and achieved practical results in the work of affordable rental housing, from "one house" to "one room", and then to "one bed". As of now, the district has raised a total of 11421 housing units, achieving 76% of the "14th Five Year Plan" target.
In 2017, Changning District launched two large-scale affordable rental housing projects, Jinghong Apartment and Jingchen Apartment, in the prime location of Gubei International Community, providing a total of approximately 1400 housing units. In Hongqiao Airport Park, where talents gather, Changning District overcame difficulties and raised funds for the construction of Hongqiao Talent Apartment, the largest affordable rental housing in Shanghai center's central urban area.
![Building a future "rental living community", over 5400 talent apartments will be released one after another, adjacent to Hongqiao Airport](https://a5qu.com/upload/images/fe8c72fccbf221d6824d64def6ad561c.jpg)
Zhang Ying, Deputy General Manager of Xinchangning Group, introduced that Hongqiao Talent Apartment is located in Xinjing Town, Changning District. It is adjacent to the Changning District Public Slow Walk and the Outer Ring West River to the east, connected to Hongqiao Sports Park via the Slow Walk to the north, and adjacent to Zhoujiabang to the south. The water network inside and outside the plot is crisscrossed, and the natural environment is superior. The apartment project has a land area of 103000 square meters and a planned total construction area of 388000 square meters. After completion, it is expected to provide 1697 motor vehicle parking spaces.
At the beginning of the construction of Hongqiao Talent Apartment in 2019, the project's housing resources received much attention. The reporter learned that the project is expected to provide 5420 residential units, with houses ranging in height from 9 to 11 floors. Based on the design concept of "small yet beautiful, small yet refined, and small yet comprehensive", the main unit types of Hongqiao Talent Apartment are mainly one bedroom units of 20-45 square meters, as well as a variety of unit types such as one bedroom and one living room units of 50-54 square meters and three bedroom and two living rooms of over 100 square meters, to meet the diverse living needs of talents.
![Building a future "rental living community", over 5400 talent apartments will be released one after another, adjacent to Hongqiao Airport](https://a5qu.com/upload/images/ac0b89c25910d90bea8d8d07a26ba0cc.jpg)
Considering the demand of young talents for living facilities, cultural and entertainment facilities, Hongqiao Talent Apartment has also planned a supporting commercial area of about 30000 square meters, which is expected to include urban markets, lifestyle supermarkets, elderly care and childcare, cultural and sports, catering and shopping, entertainment and leisure, maker offices, small theaters, and other functions. Through rich supporting facilities and diverse services, the overall concept of "rental living community" will be shaped.
Located in the special location of the north expansion zone of Hongqiao International Open Hub, the Hongqiao Talent Apartment is expected to radiate the airport economic park, aviation park, the extension area of the Expo and the Greater Hongqiao area after completion, focusing on connecting talents in key industries of Changning District such as aviation service industry, artificial intelligence, "Internet plus lifestyle services", and the world's top 500 enterprises settled in Changning District, providing strong support for regional optimization of business environment and talent recruitment.
![Building a future "rental living community", over 5400 talent apartments will be released one after another, adjacent to Hongqiao Airport](https://a5qu.com/upload/images/1cec15d6f7ee08ddc03db11778f29b69.jpg)
For this reason, the surrounding area of Hongqiao Talent Apartment is also laid out according to the spatial layout of "one pocket park, two riverside landscape belts, and three major functional areas". Among them, the "Sports Vitality Zone" will combine the sports facilities of Hongqiao Sports Park, Skateboard Park, and multiple pocket parks in the air, fully utilizing the above ground and underground spaces, creating popular sports venues such as basketball and badminton for young people, and also planning to introduce extreme sports, fitness venues, and other content. The Leisure Cultural Area will fully utilize the greenery of the outer river scenery to create a leisure area with "tranquility" as the theme, meeting the cultural and entertainment needs of the rental population.
In terms of transportation organization, the Donghongqiao area currently has three horizontal rail transit lines, including Line 2, Line 10, and Line 13. In the future, a new vertical rail transit line, Line 26, will be added to connect the existing three rail transit lines and Bus 71. With the lifting of the outer ring road and the implementation of supporting projects, Donghongqiao plans to add 1 longitudinal road and 12 transverse roads in the future, forming a more complete public transportation network and a more dense "four vertical and eighteen horizontal" road network structure.
![Building a future "rental living community", over 5400 talent apartments will be released one after another, adjacent to Hongqiao Airport](https://a5qu.com/upload/images/8e9069b9f7b1c70ebca023026ac02c2f.jpg)