China News Service, Beijing, September 14 (Reporter Chen Su) Jiang Wanrong, Vice Minister of China's Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, said on the 14th that China has historically solved the housing safety problem of poor rural residents, and the rural landscape has undergone tremendous changes.
At the press conference on the theme of "This Ten Years of China" held by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on the same day, officials from the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development introduced the situation of China's rural construction in the past ten years.
Jiang Wanrong said that this decade has been a decade of unprecedented rural construction in China and great changes in the appearance of rural areas. China has vigorously implemented the renovation of dilapidated houses in rural areas, promoted rural construction activities, improved the living environment in rural areas, and strived to build beautiful and livable villages.
The 23.416 million registered poor households across the country have achieved housing security, which has historically solved the housing security problem of the rural poor.
In the process of promoting rural construction, China has also stepped up the construction of beautiful villages, focused on improving the living environment in rural areas, and promoted the protection of traditional villages and farming civilization.
Jiang Wanrong said that in the past ten years, more than 50,000 beautiful villages with local characteristics have been built, and more than 90% of the domestic waste in natural villages nationwide has been collected, transported and processed, an increase of 60 percentage points compared with 2012.
6,819 villages with important protection value are included in the list of Chinese traditional villages, and 520,000 traditional buildings such as cultural relics, historical buildings, traditional dwellings, temples and ancestral halls are protected, forming the largest agricultural civilization heritage with the most content and value in the world. protection group.
Li Xiaolong, director of the general office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China, said that in the next step, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will continue to implement the project to improve the quality and safety of rural houses, improve the design and construction level of rural houses, improve the functions and supporting facilities of rural houses, and continuously improve the housing conditions of farmers. and living conditions, guide all localities to further improve the rural household garbage collection, transportation and disposal system, continue to improve the rural living environment, increase the protection and utilization of traditional villages, and promote the construction of beautiful villages to continuously achieve new results.
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