At the routine briefing of the State Council on April 16, Huang Yan, Vice Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, introduced the work of renovating old urban communities. Huang Yan introduced that since 2019, the transformation of old urban communities will be included in the affordable housing project, and central subsidy funding will be arranged. In 2019, 19,000 old towns will be renovated, involving 3.52 million residents. In 2020, there are plans to renovate 39,000 old communities in cities and towns, involving nearly 7 million residents.
Huang Yan pointed out at the meeting that it is necessary to actively promote the reopening of old town community renovation projects. Except for the areas that are still closed to the community and have not entered the construction season, the renovation projects of old residential communities in cities and towns in all regions are being resumed in an orderly manner. The remaining projects that are planned to be started have also started preliminary work such as soliciting opinions from residents and designing renovation plans.
Huang Yan said that the next step will be to focus on the renovation of residential areas built before the end of 2000, improve the community ’s supporting facilities and municipal infrastructure, environment, and enhance community pension, childcare, and medical care. Waiting for the level of public services. The second is to establish and improve the organizational implementation mechanism. Guide localities to take overall responsibility, promote the orderly implementation of renovation projects according to the wishes of residents, and improve the long-term management mechanism of the community. The third is to establish a rational sharing mechanism between the government and residents and social forces for the reform funds. The central government grants subsidies to fulfill local fiscal expenditure responsibilities. The local government’s special debt is given preference, and social capital and social forces are encouraged to participate in the transformation and operation. The fourth is to promote the renovation of old urban communities in 2020. Supervise all localities to do detailed and preliminary work, the focus is to do a good job of mobilizing residents to participate in the work, pay attention to project quality and construction safety, and implement the 2020 transformation plan in an orderly manner. The fifth is to summarize the results of the pilot. Actively summarize and promote the pilot results of the exploration of “9 mechanisms” in 2 provinces and 8 cities, guide localities to proceed from reality, accelerate the improvement of institutional mechanisms, and solve the difficult problems faced in the transformation.
According to Huang Yan, like other jobs, the opening and closing rate in the first quarter is low. However, with the improvement of the epidemic prevention and control situation in most parts of the country, the renovation of old communities in cities and towns is accelerating. As of now, 31 provinces, municipalities and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have all started the preliminary work on the planned projects. For projects that have already started construction and need to continue to be constructed, projects in other areas except those that are still under closed management of the community and have not entered the construction season are being resumed in an orderly manner.
Talking about the scale of investment to promote the renovation of old communities and how much social capital can be driven to participate, Huang Yan introduced that the relevant departments are still in the process of calculating the funds. in. She pointed out that the amount of old communities built before 2000 that needed to be renovated was about 3 billion square meters. In addition, some communities built after 2000 also needed renovation..