From "Residence" to "Pleasure"——
The old community has a new look and the people live more comfortably
Recently, the reporter came to Liren East Street Community, Taoranting Street, Xicheng District, Beijing, and saw several construction workers busy building steel frames for the newly installed elevator outside Building 5.
Workers told reporters that the 6-storey residential building was built in the 1980s, and the five newly installed elevators will be completed in just over a month.
Aunt Liu, a resident of the community, saw the construction site and said happily: "Older residents account for more than half of our building. In the past, it was always a problem for the elderly living in high-rise buildings to go up and down the stairs. Now I finally have to use a new elevator, which will be more convenient in the future. too much!"
In order to speed up the installation of elevators in old residential areas, this year, Beijing has formulated 16 specific measures and set a goal of starting at least 1,000 elevators throughout the year.
In recent years, all parts of the country have been comprehensively promoting the renovation of old urban communities.
Now, what new achievements have been made in various places, and what new experiences and new models have been summed up?
This reporter conducted an interview on this.
Focus on solving "urgency and sorrow"
Housing is essential to people's livelihood.
With the increase of China's urbanization rate, urban people not only need to live in peace, but also want to live happily.
In December 2019, the Central Economic Work Conference clearly stated that it is necessary to "strengthen urban renewal and the renovation and upgrading of existing housing, and do a good job in the renovation of old urban communities".
In July 2020, the State Council issued the "Guiding Opinions on Comprehensively Promoting the Renovation of Old Urban Residential Areas", proposing that by the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, based on the actual conditions of various places, strive to basically complete the old urban areas that need to be renovated before the end of 2000. Retrofit tasks.
This decade is a decade in which my country's urban living environment has been greatly improved.
A total of 163,000 old communities have been renovated nationwide, benefiting more than 28 million households.
This major people's livelihood project and development project must first solve the people's "urgent and worrying" problem, "what can't be changed, what can't be made up for what's lacking".
Dongma Jiayuan Community, Baishazhou Street, Wangcheng District, Changsha City, Hunan Province is an old community built more than 30 years ago, and its public facilities are not perfect.
Li Zongpu, a resident of the community, remembered that there were no street lights in the community in the past, and the drainage facilities were unreasonably designed. "When it rains, the muddy water will overflow into the corridor."
In 2021, Wangcheng District will include the community in the renovation plan of the old community, demolish illegal constructions, and plan the underground pipe network and parking space in an all-round way.
Today, new street lights have been installed in the community, the pitted aisles have become smooth and clean asphalt roads, and there are neatly planned parking spaces downstairs.
It is understood that since 2019, Wangcheng District has applied for the renovation of 118 old urban communities, involving more than 9,900 households. It is expected that the renovation of 155 old urban communities will be fully completed by the end of 2023, which will benefit more than 40,000 residents. .
Chunyu Community, located in Zhongzhuan Road Street, Saihan District, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, has solved the problem of flying cables through the renovation of the old community.
Residents of the community said that in the past, cables such as electricity and network access in Chunyu Community were all overhead wiring, which was horizontally above the community building.
"Later, all kinds of threads were pulled more and more, criss-crossing, and there was no way, but a large bundle of threads of different thicknesses were tied together. Looking up, it was like a 'spider web', which not only affected the aesthetics of the environment, but also existed Security risks."
Last year, the 82 old communities renovated in Saihan District had reserved underground pipe networks when they were doing civil works. Some communities have already implemented cables into the ground. Chunyu Community is one of them.
After the renovation, the sky above the community has changed from clutter to a "wireless" beauty. When residents look up, they will only see blue sky and white clouds.
While the strong and weak cables are entering the ground, Chunyu Community also built a new carport with charging piles to avoid the problem of "flying cable charging" for residents' electric bicycles.
Chen Wei, director of the Human Settlement Environment Development Promotion Center of Saihan District Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, said that in 2022, 75 old communities will be renovated in Saihan District.
"We have communicated and negotiated with the four major operators and power departments in advance to ensure that all the cables of the 75 old communities to be renovated are connected to the ground, including strong electricity, weak electricity and network cables."
"One old and one small" is the group that is focused on in the renovation of old communities.
How to better meet their living needs?
Liushui Xiyuan Community, Wenhui Street, Gongshu District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province gave its own answer.
"My children are not around, and I usually have only one person at home. Cooking is the most worrying thing every day-doing trouble by myself, and going out to buy is afraid of being unsanitary." This is the trouble of Grandma Zhao, a resident of Liushui Xiyuan.
Mr. Zhang, who lives in the same community, is most concerned about being a dual-earner family. He and his wife are usually busy with work and need someone to take care of the children at home.
But this year, their problems were solved after the community renovation.
At the end of September, a home-based elderly care service center with an area of more than 500 square meters officially opened for business only more than 100 meters away from Grandma Zhao's home.
Here, the elderly can not only buy clean and hygienic meals, but also participate in various collective activities for the elderly; the elderly canteen, multi-functional activity room, day care room, psychological counseling room, and barber room are all available.
In addition, the service center has also built an intelligent aging-friendly home model room to help elderly residents better experience the digital information services provided by the city brain.
Across the road, a child development center focusing on childcare services for children under the age of 3 has also opened.
Walking through the door, one can often hear the cheerful laughter of children.
The person in charge of the growth center said: "In addition to daily childcare services, we also go deep into the community to provide family education lectures and parent-child activities, and carry out one-to-one consultation and home guidance to meet the individual needs of families."
"The meaning of people's livelihood in the renovation of old communities is all-round." Qin Hong, a senior researcher at the National Development and Strategy Research Institute of Renmin University of China and director of the Urban Renewal Research Center, pointed out that through renovation, the water, heating, air, water, heating, air, and water quality within and in connection with the community will be improved. Infrastructures such as electricity, network, roads, fire protection, and security can greatly improve the living quality of residents. As well as special community service facilities such as pension, childcare, housekeeping and cleaning, convenience market, postal express terminal comprehensive service station, etc., it can more comprehensively meet the material life and spiritual and cultural needs of residents.
These measures will help residents of old communities move towards a better life.
Listen to the opinions and suggestions of the people
"The renovation of the old community is to do good things for our residents, and we all agree with it, but how to ensure the quality of the project? Especially the pipeline network buried deep in the ground, we can't see or touch it. If there is a problem in the future, who should we turn to? to fix it?"
"It is inevitable that noise, garbage, and road damage will occur during the renovation process. We can understand that, but these do have a certain impact on our lives. Can we ask the government to coordinate the construction party to speed up the progress, shorten the construction period, and minimize the impact? "
These are the opinions and suggestions of residents listened to during the renovation of the old community in Zhongshan Community, Wuchang District, Wuhan City, Hubei Province on April 20 this year.
Due to the long-term construction of this residence, there are a series of problems such as damaged roads, aging facilities, random parking, and unsmooth sewage pipes, which affect the improvement of the residents' happy life index.
In 2021, the community will be officially included in the old community renovation project, and the water, electricity, rain and sewage diversion, security and other aspects will be transformed.
In the renovation of old communities, if you want to replace "heart" with "new", you must sit down and listen carefully to the opinions of the masses and solve the problems of the masses.
Today, a series of issues such as "whether to change it", "what to change", "how to change it" and "how to manage it after the change" are all decided by residents through consultation. The transformation from "government doing" to "working together" has made the renovation of old communities more effective.
There are many ways to listen to public opinion.
In Licang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province, this year, the old community renovation project in the district was selected in the mode of "reporting the community - on-site evaluation - confirming the project".
First of all, the renovation projects are submitted by each sub-district office in combination with the community situation and residents' opinions.
Secondly, the headquarters for the renovation of old cities and villages invites personnel from various departments, residents' representatives, and third-party experts to conduct on-site inspections and score evaluations of the reported communities.
Finally, according to the high and low ranking of scores, through a fair and open evaluation method, the communities with the strongest feedback, the most urgent, the most urgent, and the most concerned are included in the renovation plan.
Yingshan County, Huanggang City, Hubei Province has explored the "joint creation" model, from "active guidance, propaganda and mobilization", to "party building leadership, party members demonstration", and then to "one district, one policy, co-governance and co-management", many good practices Collaborate to make the residents change from the original "outsiders" to the current "owners".
The Tianhe East Community, Tianhe District, Guangzhou City, Guangdong Province fully involved the majority of residents in the whole process of reconstruction.
Before the renovation, the local streets and community neighborhood committees organized residents to set up project construction management committees, owners committees and other community self-governing organizations to build a platform for residents to discuss matters. There are more than 330 opinions from residents, and the design plan is continuously optimized accordingly.
Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region innovatively established the "Old Friends Council" to guide residents to discuss and negotiate and self-govern, effectively promote the smooth progress of the renovation of old communities, and listen to residents on a regular basis in an atmosphere of candid and open communication. Opinions, giving the right to lead the transformation to the residents.
Residents' opinions collected through intensive discussions are then summarized by representatives and connected with the construction party, and public opinion has been implemented.
Public opinion is really involved in the whole process of the renovation of the old community.
These methods of "asking for the people" are promoting the "renewing of the old appearance".
As Duan Weiguo, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau of Yingshan County, said, "The old community renovation project is not a 'one-man show' on the part of the community, but a 'chorus' with the participation of multiple forces".
In this way, by actively expressing and being heard, many of the visions of ordinary people have become "courtyard landscapes", and people live in the beautiful environment they want.
Explore new policy mechanisms
The transformation of old urban districts is also an important engine for promoting urban renewal.
The exploration and practical innovation in the process of renovation have provided valuable experience for the construction of urban renewal institutional mechanisms and policy systems.
All localities are actively exploring the streamlining and optimization of the project approval process.
Hubei Province has established a green channel for approval for the renovation of old residential areas. According to the project investment category, scale, complexity, location, etc., a "scenario-based" approval process is formulated and graded, and online approval is implemented.
For example, for the renovation of "low-risk" old communities that do not involve changes in the main structure of the building, the review of construction drawing design may not be carried out.
The "Reconstruction Plan" jointly reviewed and approved by the relevant departments can be used as the approval basis for the construction permit for the renovation project of the old community.
It is allowed to combine construction permit and project quality supervision and other approval matters.
Hunan Province has shortened the entire project approval process in the province to 19 working days, and nearly 4,000 renovation projects have achieved "one-stop service" relying on the project approval system.
Qingdao City, Shandong Province "bundled" the 318 communities planned to be renovated in 2022 into 120 projects, unified project approval, design and construction bidding, reducing the workload by more than 50%.
Digital and intelligent means help to improve the quality and efficiency of old residential areas.
In September last year, Yunyang County, Chongqing City launched an app specially developed to serve the co-construction and co-governance of old communities, which effectively improved the decision-making efficiency of consultation and discussion during the renovation of old communities.
Residents can participate in the pre-planning, process implementation and post-management of the renovation of the old community through the App, watch announcements, read policies, vote, give opinions, and receive replies online, which better solves the problem that traditional courtyard dam meetings cannot be reached. , Incomplete arrival, inaudible, and incomprehensible problems, fully protect the rights of every owner and resident to know, participate, vote and supervise in the old community.
After the app was put into use, the support rate of residents for the renovation of old communities increased from 40% to 95%.
In Yuehu District, Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, more than 20,000 smart fire-fighting terminal devices were installed in the old community renovation project.
In the nine-one-two community of Meiyuan Street in the district, high-altitude parabolic monitoring has been newly installed, and smart bookstores and smart charging piles have been built relying on the Internet of Things, turning the old community into a "smart community", which has both "face" "And "Riko".
The Economic and Technological Development Zone of Guiyang City, Guizhou Province has set up a "Community Intelligent Operation and Management Platform", and has completed the digital transformation of 55 old communities through the construction of smart communities.
Through this platform, community managers can see real-time data such as the number of houses, actual vehicles, surrounding services, electricity consumption and firefighting.
In addition, the addition of intelligent equipment such as party building propaganda screens, government affairs all-in-one machines, 24-hour self-service medicine vending machines, unmanned vending machines, and self-service charging equipment has also facilitated the lives of residents.
After the renovation of the old community is completed, it is necessary to improve the long-term management mechanism and do a good job in the follow-up operation.
Qin Hong believes that by improving the long-term management mechanism of the community, promoting the construction of a community governance system of "vertical to the end, horizontal to the edge, co-construction, co-governance and sharing", and guiding residents to negotiate and determine the management model and management protocol of the renovated community is conducive to joint maintenance. Transformation results.
For example, Chongqing Municipality has established three comprehensive management service modes, including professional property management, community property services, and resident autonomy, for the renovated old communities, and actively guides property service companies to go out of the community, integrate into the community, and participate in grass-roots governance.
In Shuanglonghu Street, Yubei District, 86 old single buildings were “grouped together” into 13 blocks, and professional property service companies were introduced to implement block system management; Yuzhong District explored the “Party building + property” model to establish 68 community property service centers. Realize full coverage of old residential communities... Follow-up management is orderly, and many old renovated communities are rejuvenated with new vitality.
Our reporter Li Zhen and Liu Shaohua (Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition)