Notice on the Renovation of Old Urban Residential Areas Deployed by Seven Departments | Renovation | Residential Areas
On July 20th, the Economic Reference Daily published an article titled "Seven Departments Deploying the Renovation of Old Urban Residential Areas". The article states that recently, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Rural Development, the National Development and Reform Commission, and seven other departments jointly issued a notice on solidly promoting the renovation of old urban communities in 2023, deploying various regions to solidly promote the implementation of the renovation plan for old urban communities, and planning the renovation plan for 2024 ahead.
"We have been living in houses for quite a long time now, and it's particularly cold in winter." "Also, the roads in our community are bumpy, making travel inconvenient." "The pipes in the community often have poor water supply and drainage, which affects normal life."... Yuhaiyuan Yili, Tiancun Street, Haidian District, Beijing, has been built for more than 20 years. Like other old communities, some buildings and public facilities in the community have aged and damaged to varying degrees. ". Since the beginning of this year, Yuhaiyuan Community has held several resident representative conferences, allowing residents to express their opinions and understand the renovation needs of the interior and exterior of the house.
The renovation of old residential areas is a key aspect of urban renewal and renovation, which is not only a major livelihood project but also an important development project. China continues to promote the renovation of old urban communities, accurately addressing weaknesses and strengths, accelerating the elimination of housing and community safety hazards, comprehensively improving the living environment, facility conditions, and service functions of old urban communities and communities, promoting the construction of safe, healthy, well-equipped, and orderly managed complete communities, and continuously enhancing the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security.
The focus of the renovation is on corridor revolution, environmental revolution, and management revolution. According to the Notice, we will adhere to a problem oriented approach, conduct comprehensive physical examinations on the old urban communities to be renovated, identify safety hazards, facilities, and service shortcomings, and reasonably determine the renovation content, renovation plan, and construction standards based on the principle of "one community, one strategy".
"Corridor Revolution" - Accelerate the renovation and renovation of aging and hidden gas, water, heating, drainage and other pipelines, accelerate the renovation of pedestrian walkways in buildings, carry out safety renovations on residential exterior walls, and promote the installation of elevators in buildings with conditions.
"Environmental Revolution" - comprehensively improving the greening, lighting, and other environments in residential areas and their surrounding areas. Add supporting facilities such as parking lots, electric bicycles, and car charging facilities as needed. Promote the renovation and construction of community special service facilities such as elderly care, childcare, meal assistance, housekeeping, convenience markets, and comprehensive postal and express terminal service stations, and enrich the supply of community services.
"Management Revolution" - Actively guide eligible communities to introduce specialized property service enterprises, improve the mechanism of using and continuing to raise funds for special residential maintenance, and promote the maintenance and renewal of communities after renovation to enter a virtuous track.
It is worth mentioning that this notice clearly encourages the rational expansion of renovation implementation units. On the premise of completing the renovation tasks of old residential areas before the end of 2000 as scheduled, and under the controllable financial capacity of local governments, the scope of renovation can be extended to old residential areas from the end of 2000 to the end of 2005.
At the same time, encourage areas with conditions to research and establish a mechanism for "physical examination to identify problems, renovation to solve problems" in residential communities, explore the establishment of a housing pension and insurance system, solve the problem of "where money comes from", and form a long-term mechanism for the renovation and construction of residential communities.
Advance planning and construction. The notice states that according to the principle of "implementing one batch, planning one batch, and reserving one batch", the renovation plan for 2024 will be determined as soon as possible from bottom to top. We will initiate preliminary work such as soliciting resident preferences, project approval, and fundraising for renovation in 2023, and encourage eligible projects to start implementation ahead of schedule by 2023. However, it is also necessary to consider whether it is within the local financial capacity, organizational implementation capacity, and whether it meets the wishes of the people, and resolutely prevent blind borrowing to spread the burden and increase implicit government debt.
Yan Yuejin, Research Director of E-house Research Institute, stated that the renovation of old residential areas is an important aspect of stabilizing investment and benefiting people's livelihood in China. This policy focuses on expanding the scope of renovation and exploring the establishment of a housing pension and insurance system to solve the problem of "where money comes from" and form a long-term mechanism for the renovation and construction of residential areas; At the same time, measures should be taken to prevent the formation of new local bonds. He believes that with advance planning in various regions, related investments will significantly accelerate.
